From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: Subversion's do-everything-via-copying paradigm ( was RE: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:05:21 +0200 Message-ID: <85sku8gr1q.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <32541b130807161053w24a21d7bh1fa800a714ce75db@mail.gmail.com> <32541b130807161135h64024151xc60e23d222a3a508@mail.gmail.com> <861w1sn4id.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86k5fk1ooq.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F79430238A16B@emailmn.mqsoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: To: "Craig L. Ching" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 17 23:57:07 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 1KJbTH-00077c-CJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:57:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754491AbYGQV4B (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:56:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757392AbYGQV4A (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:56:00 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:40133 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757017AbYGQVz7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:55:59 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38343 helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KJbRZ-00071b-KM; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:55:21 -0400 Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 490781C1346B; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:05:22 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F79430238A16B@emailmn.mqsoftware.com> (Craig L. Ching's message of "Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:18:06 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Craig L. Ching" writes: >> -----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. Never bit me. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum