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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: n-heads and patch dependency chains
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 07:29:18 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604030727250.3781@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4430D352.4010707@vilain.net>



On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Sam Vilain wrote:
> 
> "Patch dependency chains", the best plain-English term we could find for
> the scary sounding darcs term "patch calculus", are said by some to be a
> very good reason to use a system like darcs, even to some its
> fundamental advantage over systems such as git.

I really think that darcs is just "nice theory", and has nothing to do 
with real life.

Terms like "patch calculus" may sound cool and useful, but let's face it, 
the proof is in the pudding, and quite frankly, I would bet that trying to 
do something like that on a real project would just be a total disaster.

I want my merges simple. I want them to take a couple of seconds. I don't 
want to see strange patch dependencies that nobody cares about. And I very 
much don't want to see theory over practice.

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-03 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-03  7:48 n-heads and patch dependency chains Sam Vilain
2006-04-03 14:29 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-04-03 15:38   ` Sam Vilain
2006-04-03 19:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-03 23:55   ` Sam Vilain
2006-04-04  9:28     ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-04-04  9:51       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-04 10:44         ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-04-04 11:03       ` Jakub Narebski
2006-04-04 11:47         ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-04-20 18:08           ` Jon Loeliger
2006-04-20 18:55             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-21  8:50               ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-04-04 19:00     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-04 20:18       ` Jakub Narebski
2006-04-05  6:34       ` Sam Vilain
2006-04-05  7:11         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-04-05  7:31           ` Sam Vilain
2006-04-05  7:59             ` Jakub Narebski
2006-04-04  0:51 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-04-04 11:05 ` Catalin Marinas
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-03 22:13 linux

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