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From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:39:41 +0200
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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).