From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:02:01 +0200 Message-ID: <85wsjkgr7a.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <32541b130807161053w24a21d7bh1fa800a714ce75db@mail.gmail.com> <32541b130807161135h64024151xc60e23d222a3a508@mail.gmail.com> <861w1sn4id.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86k5fk1ooq.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <6B9BBA72-6E75-47E3-911A-4A5309090807@sb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Kevin Ballard X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 17 23:57:09 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 1KJbTI-00077c-1D for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:57:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757190AbYGQV4F (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:56:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757273AbYGQV4E (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:56:04 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:40132 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757190AbYGQVz7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:55:59 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38345 helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KJbRZ-00071e-KV; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:55:21 -0400 Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id C76C91C142BA; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:02:01 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <6B9BBA72-6E75-47E3-911A-4A5309090807@sb.org> (Kevin Ballard's message of "Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:15:01 -0700") 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: Kevin Ballard writes: > On Jul 17, 2008, at 9:05 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> 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. > > Sure, it's simpler, but the overhead in creating and using a branch is > much larger. I have to extract the URL from the repository (since > naturally I only have trunk checked out), Say something like svn info and then use cut&paste. > issue a command to copy by URL, then issue an `svn switch` command, > and then I have to remember that I have a switched repository. Huh? How is that different to remembering a switched branch? Anyway, one tends to check out different branches in different workdirs. > Switching between branches is a pain, especially if you have > uncommitted work. There's a reason I never bothered to use branches > when I used subversion. Looks like it. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum