From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Craig L. Ching" Subject: Subversion's do-everything-via-copying paradigm ( was RE: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:18:06 -0500 Message-ID: <63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F79430238A16B@emailmn.mqsoftware.com> References: <32541b130807161053w24a21d7bh1fa800a714ce75db@mail.gmail.com><32541b130807161135h64024151xc60e23d222a3a508@mail.gmail.com><861w1sn4id.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> A<86k5fk1ooq.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT To: "David Kastrup" , X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 17 18:20:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJWCu-0008Hk-7A for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:19:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754972AbYGQQSx (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:18:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753689AbYGQQSx (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:18:53 -0400 Received: from emailmn.mqsoftware.com ([66.192.70.108]:4178 "EHLO emailmn.mqsoftware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752861AbYGQQSx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:18:53 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message In-Reply-To: A<86k5fk1ooq.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Subversion's do-everything-via-copying paradigm ( was RE: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful) Thread-Index: AcjoJ1giWa7Y/arUQ2SQ/6j3eX0RxwAAQTaA Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > -----Original Message----- > From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org > [mailto:git-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of David Kastrup > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:05 AM > To: git@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful > > How much have you worked with Subversion so far? I am doing > quite a bit of work with it, and the > do-everything-via-copying paradigm does not get in my hair. > It actually means that I have to remember fewer commands. > And it is pretty easy to understand. > Does it not bother you that renaming a file is a copy + delete [1]. Have they fixed that yet? That was one of the biggest reasons we never moved to subversion. Ok, I'm done picking on Subversion for now :-P [1] -- http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=898 > -- > David Kastrup > Cheers, Craig