From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:38:42 -0400 Message-ID: <42BC8B72.8040203@pobox.com> References: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> <20050623235634.GC14426@waste.org> <20050624064101.GB14292@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matthias Urlichs , git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jun 25 00:36:53 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlwmi-00055T-4u for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:36:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263300AbVFXWlx (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:41:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263295AbVFXWjR (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:39:17 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:8389 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263282AbVFXWiy (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:38:54 -0400 Received: from cpe-065-184-065-144.nc.res.rr.com ([65.184.65.144] helo=[10.10.10.88]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.51 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Dlwov-0006z5-3O; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:38:45 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > I still think you can go a bit too far on your branch usage (ie Jeff), but > hey, what's the difference between three branches and fifty, really? LOL ;-) > (I'm kidding. The difference between three and fifty is how well you can > keep track of them in your head, but maybe Jeff just has a bigger head > than most people do. Jeff, do people go "Boy, you've got a big head" the > first time they meet you?) 50 branches is just easier than 50 different trees, for my usage :) Poor kernel.org would melt if I had 50 trees :) Jeff