From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sitaram Chamarty Subject: Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:55:25 +0530 Message-ID: <54F91E25.4050008@gmail.com> References: <54F2CD12.8050609@gmail.com> <54F723D3.1050805@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Stefan Beller , "git@vger.kernel.org" To: Michael J Gruber , David Lang , Shawn Pearce X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 06 04:26:06 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YTitO-0000a3-3L for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 04:25:38 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754259AbbCFDZe convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2015 22:25:34 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f44.google.com ([209.85.220.44]:36367 "EHLO mail-pa0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754251AbbCFDZd (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2015 22:25:33 -0500 Received: by padfa1 with SMTP id fa1so41813231pad.3 for ; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 19:25:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=P2joss9WqAVDYeJU9yGsB80tB0XSaGZ9aFyFervfhHU=; b=exZ5M6Ir7lijZDCE+pJL1rFIEtROgi8lA7xiPxmB53G8zho/MUnrfKUioJxOmwtEOO wtwIz0+W+/Selhv7NCyhn6F3g65ZvHUe8YhprxWGFksfPvoGiG/x5WtWdaIH8nsjwB5I MJRl3JNFJoyD45AK8pEiDkB70p6haHNyvIjnB59JcfH5WZdwCRk5MPboHakM+CeBpbp0 jLJQmHyWN2WJYQIAGAHaEjB+uDB8i3FR4vL5bmVI/y/K1pk0jxacnowh4t/O3NLP8h/N avKySRvhFg+OYYOjWtEDZJyszRCCKOIwBcpNr3nWndscnXuyvOD2Q43CtvGS4OIspOTE ItzA== X-Received: by 10.66.141.109 with SMTP id rn13mr21345450pab.113.1425612332815; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 19:25:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from sita-lt.atc.tcs.com ([117.216.213.80]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id di5sm8239002pbc.36.2015.03.05.19.25.28 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 05 Mar 2015 19:25:31 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: <54F723D3.1050805@drmicha.warpmail.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 03/04/2015 08:55 PM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > Yes, that article has a few really weak lines of arguments, such as t= he > tutorial count. Here's his definition of the main draw of a DVCS: No, the only thing that a DVCS gets you, by definition, is that everyone gets a copy of the full offline history of the entire repository to do with as you please. That completely misses the point. What about committing while offline, 'git blame' months-old changes offline, or local branches that don't have to make it to the server until they have cooked for a while, and s= o on and on? We're not all "facebooks" with multi-GB repos, and I certainly don't care as much about disk space or bandwidth if losing those features is the cost. It gets worse: Let me tell you something. Of all the time I have ever used DVCSes, over the last twenty years if we count Smalltalk changesets and twelve or so if you don=E2=80=99t, I have wanted to have the full h= istory while offline a grand total of maybe about six times. I don't know how you can work on anything reasonably complex and multi-developer without using some of those features six times in a *week* (sometimes, six times in a *weekend*) let alone 12 years.