From: "Dana How" <danahow@gmail.com>
To: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>,
"Pietro Mascagni" <pietromas@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, danahow@gmail.com
Subject: Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:58:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56b7f5510704250158v5d80feb7gb82db0da2349eb8f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0704170739te4c35f0m8e4a3cd5bad440cd@mail.gmail.com>
On 4/17/07, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/17/07, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> > - Old school SCMs allow you to branch, but are unable to keep track
> > of merges in any meaningful way. Every time you merge, history is
> > lost. GIT (and other DSCMs) have excellent branching _and_ merging
> > facilities.
> This one was a bad argument too. Curiously, and I cannot explain why,
> ability to branch is considered a weakness of GIT ("because it confuses
> the integrators", them being old mean men). The Perforce is said to
> be "vastly superior to everything" on these grounds: "it also has
> branching support, but luckily(!) it is hard enough for simple
> developers. Was not their (Perforce's) fault, they just included it
> to keep up with the market". Almost exact wording (I had to translate it).
You are also trying to gain traction in a Perforce environment?
I'd be interested in any more details you might have;
I'm just starting. Email me directly if you like.
Thanks,
--
Dana L. How danahow@gmail.com +1 650 804 5991 cell
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-25 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-17 9:02 GIT vs Other: Need argument Pietro Mascagni
2007-04-17 9:13 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-04-17 10:26 ` Andy Parkins
2007-04-17 14:32 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-17 10:37 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-04-17 15:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-17 17:07 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-04-17 10:33 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-04-17 14:39 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-25 8:58 ` Dana How [this message]
2007-04-25 10:35 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-17 10:45 ` Tomash Brechko
2007-04-17 15:41 ` Guilhem Bonnefille
2007-04-17 17:18 ` Andy Parkins
2007-04-17 17:30 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-04-17 19:36 ` Marcin Kasperski
2007-04-18 10:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-18 16:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-18 16:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-18 16:49 ` Bill Lear
2007-04-18 17:43 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-04-18 17:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-19 13:16 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-04-19 18:44 ` Petr Baudis
2007-04-20 9:04 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-04-18 20:57 ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-18 20:08 ` Guilhem Bonnefille
2007-04-18 20:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-18 21:45 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-04-18 21:21 ` Michael K. Edwards
2007-04-19 8:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-19 13:29 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-04-19 9:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-19 12:21 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-19 12:22 ` Christian MICHON
2007-04-19 12:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-19 12:54 ` Christian MICHON
2007-04-19 16:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-19 17:49 ` Marcin Kasperski
2007-04-19 20:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-23 18:54 ` Carl Worth
2007-04-23 19:52 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2007-04-23 22:12 ` Carl Worth
2007-04-23 22:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-23 22:58 ` Carl Worth
2007-04-23 23:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-23 23:55 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-04-24 1:31 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-04-24 5:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-24 14:23 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-04-24 15:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-30 4:31 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-04-25 13:12 ` Making git disappear when talking about my code (was: Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument) Carl Worth
2007-04-25 14:09 ` Carl Worth
2007-04-25 14:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-25 16:28 ` Carl Worth
2007-04-25 18:07 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-25 19:03 ` Carl Worth
2007-04-25 19:17 ` Making git disappear when talking about my code Junio C Hamano
2007-04-25 19:22 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-25 20:26 ` Carl Worth
2007-04-25 20:23 ` Making git disappear when talking about my code (was: Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument) Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-25 14:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-25 19:44 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-04-25 19:56 ` Making git disappear when talking about my code Junio C Hamano
2007-04-25 20:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-25 20:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-25 21:38 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-04-25 20:29 ` Making git disappear when talking about my code (was: Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument) Carl Worth
2007-04-25 22:39 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-04-25 20:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-23 23:22 ` GIT vs Other: Need argument Junio C Hamano
2007-04-19 20:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-20 15:54 ` History cleanup/rewriting script for git Jan Harkes
2007-04-20 18:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-20 18:44 ` Petr Baudis
2007-04-20 20:36 ` Jan Harkes
2007-04-19 12:15 ` GIT vs Other: Need argument Marcin Kasperski
2007-04-19 12:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-19 12:42 ` Marcin Kasperski
2007-04-19 13:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-19 14:27 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-04-19 12:45 ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-19 12:46 ` [ANNOUNCE] Cogito is for sale Petr Baudis
2007-04-19 13:32 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-04-19 20:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-19 20:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <1176984208.30690.18.camel@cauchy.softax.local>
2007-04-19 12:28 ` GIT vs Other: Need argument Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-19 12:37 ` Marcin Kasperski
2007-04-19 13:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <200704172239.20124.andyparkins@gmail.com>
2007-04-19 11:59 ` Marcin Kasperski
2007-04-19 12:48 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-19 12:57 ` Andy Parkins
2007-04-20 6:22 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-04-20 13:03 ` Eric Blake
2007-04-18 12:40 ` Guilhem Bonnefille
2007-04-18 13:26 ` Andy Parkins
2007-04-18 17:08 ` Steven Grimm
2007-04-19 0:33 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-04-19 1:24 ` Steven Grimm
2007-04-19 2:08 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-04-19 8:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-19 8:57 ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-19 19:03 ` Steven Grimm
2007-04-19 21:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-19 2:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-19 6:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-19 18:18 ` Steven Grimm
2007-04-19 23:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-20 5:32 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-04-20 9:04 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-04-20 10:18 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-04-20 10:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-20 13:57 ` Petr Baudis
2007-04-20 8:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-20 16:42 ` Steven Grimm
2007-04-18 20:54 ` Yann Dirson
2007-04-18 3:09 ` Sam Vilain
2007-04-18 20:49 ` Yann Dirson
2007-04-25 8:55 ` Dana How
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