Re: Merge with git-pasky II.

[Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>]

Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 12:25:58AM CEST, I got a letter
where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> told me that...
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Bram Cohen wrote:
> > 
> > So you think that a system which supports snapshots and history but has no
> > merging functionality whatsoever is the right thing?
> 
> You haven't looked at git, have you?
> 
> Git already merges better than _any_ open-source SCM out there. It just 
> does it so effortlessly that you didn't even realize it does that.

Did you (or any other kernel developer reading this) actually try the
Codeville merge? (I admit I didn't get time to do anything real with it
yet.) SCM people keep praising it (as basically the best (at least
open-source) merge out there), so it would be interesting to compare
that with the actual real-world experience with it on the kernel.

> Today I've done four (count them) fully automated merges on the kernel
> tree: serial, networking, usb and arm.
> 
> And they took a fraction of a second (plus the download of the new
> objects, which is the real cost).
> 
> This is something that SVN _still_ cannot do, for example. 

I think SVN is just irrelevant here - it is a completely different
league. The contenders here are probably Codeville, Monotone and perhaps
GNU Arch offsprings.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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