From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Cc: "Pietro Mascagni" <pietromas@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:39:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0704170739te4c35f0m8e4a3cd5bad440cd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90704170333t38992792m77ddb3d927b21842@mail.gmail.com>
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).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-17 14:39 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 [this message]
2007-04-25 8:58 ` Dana How
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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