From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2007 partial summary Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:43:51 -0400 Message-ID: <20070827154351.GG4680@thunk.org> References: <200708190128.43515.jnareb@gmail.com> <200708270251.05762.jnareb@gmail.com> <85tzqla5tn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: David Kastrup X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 27 17:43:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IPgkw-0005bU-Ra for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:43:59 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756065AbXH0Pn4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:43:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755936AbXH0Pnz (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:43:55 -0400 Received: from THUNK.ORG ([69.25.196.29]:51210 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755754AbXH0Pnz (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:43:55 -0400 Received: from root (helo=candygram.thunk.org) by thunker.thunk.org with local-esmtps (tls_cipher TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1IPgtk-0008Az-2u; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:53:04 -0400 Received: from tytso by candygram.thunk.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IPgkp-0006qn-AJ; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:43:51 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <85tzqla5tn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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