From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2007 partial summary
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:43:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070827154351.GG4680@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85tzqla5tn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 07:45:40AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> I found guilt essentially unusable for me due to its documentation.
> There is only man-page level documentation for the various commands
> comprising it, but the overall design is just "this is just like patch
> sets in ..." uh, Monotone? Don't remember which it was. Anyway, the
> docs were quite useless to me as someone who did _not_ previously use
> the system mentioned as reference.
The system guilt is more like is "quilt". For people who are using
pure patches to maintain changes against mainline, quilt is the "rcs"
of that particular problem domain. It would probably be a good idea
to have a pointer to Andreas Gruenbacher's, "How To Surive With Many
Patches or Introduction to Quilt" paper.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-27 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-18 23:28 Git User's Survey 2007 Jakub Narebski
2007-08-18 23:59 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-19 12:17 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-25 22:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-19 13:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-27 0:51 ` Git User's Survey 2007 partial summary Jakub Narebski
2007-08-27 1:40 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-27 9:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-27 11:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-27 11:28 ` Gábor Farkas
2007-08-27 12:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-27 13:19 ` Gábor Farkas
2007-08-27 13:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-27 13:55 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-27 12:27 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-27 13:31 ` Gábor Farkas
2007-08-27 11:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-27 15:42 ` Torgil Svensson
2007-08-27 3:24 ` Dan Chokola
2007-08-27 8:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-27 8:57 ` Benoit SIGOURE
2007-08-27 9:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-27 9:54 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-08-27 23:48 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-27 5:45 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-27 15:43 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-08-27 8:07 ` Benoit SIGOURE
2007-09-02 8:33 ` Jakub Narebski
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