From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2010 (resend) Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <201007032158.57700.jnareb@gmail.com> <201007041013.40563.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Yann Dirson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 07 23:43:44 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWcP5-00036x-EW for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:43:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757841Ab0GGVnW (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2010 17:43:22 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:59260 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757667Ab0GGVnT (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2010 17:43:19 -0400 Received: by fxm14 with SMTP id 14so54732fxm.19 for ; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:43:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=yf3bxJCMHGtSdAaDNMHPNwMv3FGjciurxuiXBxiUthg=; b=bHfIut011y8oYv13nJaeJaDErRPi4sGgGEdCNKI6Hl0A67POCQ3XGVmQzNaJrOEkmD zlDAWWb96N3StWiVNklBgTCLbv38RJr9kEsalvMObPZpy9FLcQ+o1vVyhWKJR7+zLewQ XxFn2AMmREkYZVJQv/iXnIY/3RvxWuvVU12DA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=ZlFl2RspAyDQ+8JxaLdNVusheqO03zUkoXrij0cXSoFGT6koIq7QkW20GuWazM/XtS HBR6jEtelmttHTlPKn1Tb2hEKVKwLD+C8GyTc3KAuexuM/MCg2DNQ46KCOQkKKGS2C5O U9C+BFIblKvYAyg0A6YnapHI+9Y4+dp79Lv6c= Received: by 10.223.103.211 with SMTP id l19mr6391870fao.62.1278538997502; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:43:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abvr9.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.215.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q24sm15353564faa.42.2010.07.07.14.43.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o67LglBO002636; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 23:42:47 +0200 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id o67LgVlO002632; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 23:42:31 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Yann Dirson writes: > Jakub Narebski gmail.com> writes: > > === xx. Have you found distributed version control easy? === > > (multiple choice) > > > > + Very easy > > + Easy > > + Reasonably easy > > + Hard > > + Very hard > > > > Or something like that, with separate question if DVCS is difficult > > or not. > > > > Alternatively we could ask about _relative_ ease of learning / use. > > But I don't think this would go well (and I don't think we could get > > good answers from that). > > Related to that, would be whether the user was familiar with DVCS before > starting to use git, or even familiar with VCS - the answers would be different > for people for whom git is the first VCS they ever used, or for people having > used other DVCS before... Relative ease of use of Git as compared to perceived ease of distributed version control as generic subject. But I don't think it is a good way to go (and get meaningfull answers). > > Well, Git User's Surveys always served more or less accidentally as > > the source of information about git and git community ("we have wiki?" > > from the first survey ) > > Count me in for "we have git new-worktree ?" :) > In fact, I found nothing by that name in git's tree or in the wiki's > InterfacesFrontendsAndTools. Google finally pointed me to contrib/ where I > noticed workdir/git-new-workdir. > > It may be worth to use a URL for publicizing non-mainstream stuff. That's > better as publicizing goes, and makes it easy to crowdsource discovery of > mistakes or outdated things. Hmmm... perhaps it would be worth to create GitContrib page on Git Wiki, and link it from InterfacesFrontendsAndTools page... -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git