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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:13:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqejmjjrdp.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa69c80b0704170202r3f35acc7ydb81708e747c69ff@mail.gmail.com> (Pietro Mascagni's message of "Tue\, 17 Apr 2007 10\:02\:18 +0100")

"Pietro Mascagni" <pietromas@gmail.com> writes:

> So, in 15 seconds, how does one argue that GIT is vastly superior to
> other version control software, especially CVS.

Vs CVS, in 15 seconds, I'd say:

* Atomic commits. CVS makes it hard to get back to a consistant state
  in the past. What does it mean, for example to checkout revision 1.5
  of a project in CVS (hint: nothing, it's meaningfull for a file
  only).

* Rename management.

* Performance.

* Perhaps your boss will be interested in the "data integrity" (i.e.
  git fsck) problem too.

You have also the joker argument "Linus Torvalds is very intelligent,
and he gave up with CVS looong ago", but it might or might not work.

If you have to argue against SVN, you'll need more than 15
seconds ;-).

-- 
Matthieu

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-17  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-17  9:02 GIT vs Other: Need argument Pietro Mascagni
2007-04-17  9:13 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2007-04-17 10:26   ` Andy Parkins
2007-04-17 14:32     ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-17 10:37   ` Martin Langhoff
2007-04-17 15:28   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-17 17:07     ` Matthieu Moy
2007-04-17 10:33 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-04-17 14:39   ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-25  8:58     ` Dana How
2007-04-25 10:35       ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-17 10:45 ` Tomash Brechko
2007-04-17 15:41   ` Guilhem Bonnefille
2007-04-17 17:18     ` Andy Parkins
2007-04-17 17:30       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-04-17 19:36         ` Marcin Kasperski
2007-04-18 10:05           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-18 16:07             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-18 16:31               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-18 16:49               ` Bill Lear
2007-04-18 17:43                 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-04-18 17:50                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-19 13:16                     ` Matthieu Moy
2007-04-19 18:44                       ` Petr Baudis
2007-04-20  9:04                         ` Matthieu Moy
2007-04-18 20:57                   ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-18 20:08               ` Guilhem Bonnefille
2007-04-18 20:19                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-18 21:45                   ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-04-18 21:21                 ` Michael K. Edwards
2007-04-19  8:37                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-19 13:29                   ` Matthieu Moy
2007-04-19  9:24               ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-19 12:21                 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-19 12:22                 ` Christian MICHON
2007-04-19 12:37                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-19 12:54                     ` Christian MICHON
2007-04-19 16:43                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-19 17:49                   ` Marcin Kasperski
2007-04-19 20:57                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-23 18:54                       ` Carl Worth
2007-04-23 19:52                         ` Josef Weidendorfer
2007-04-23 22:12                           ` Carl Worth
2007-04-23 22:23                         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-23 22:58                           ` Carl Worth
2007-04-23 23:24                             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-23 23:55                               ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-04-24  1:31                               ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-04-24  5:15                               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-24 14:23                                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-04-24 15:01                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-30  4:31                                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-04-25 13:12                                 ` Making git disappear when talking about my code (was: Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument) Carl Worth
2007-04-25 14:09                                   ` Carl Worth
2007-04-25 14:55                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-25 16:28                                       ` Carl Worth
2007-04-25 18:07                                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-25 19:03                                           ` Carl Worth
2007-04-25 19:17                                             ` Making git disappear when talking about my code Junio C Hamano
2007-04-25 19:22                                               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-25 20:26                                               ` Carl Worth
2007-04-25 20:23                                             ` Making git disappear when talking about my code (was: Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument) Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-25 14:51                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-25 19:44                                   ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-04-25 19:56                                     ` Making git disappear when talking about my code Junio C Hamano
2007-04-25 20:29                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-25 20:32                                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-25 21:38                                       ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-04-25 20:29                                     ` Making git disappear when talking about my code (was: Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument) Carl Worth
2007-04-25 22:39                                       ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-04-25 20:31                                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-23 23:22                         ` GIT vs Other: Need argument Junio C Hamano
2007-04-19 20:49                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-20 15:54                   ` History cleanup/rewriting script for git Jan Harkes
2007-04-20 18:39                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-20 18:44                       ` Petr Baudis
2007-04-20 20:36                       ` Jan Harkes
2007-04-19 12:15               ` GIT vs Other: Need argument Marcin Kasperski
2007-04-19 12:33                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-19 12:42                   ` Marcin Kasperski
2007-04-19 13:36                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-19 14:27                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-04-19 12:45                   ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-19 12:46               ` [ANNOUNCE] Cogito is for sale Petr Baudis
2007-04-19 13:32                 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-04-19 20:23                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-19 20:42                   ` Johannes Schindelin
     [not found]             ` <1176984208.30690.18.camel@cauchy.softax.local>
2007-04-19 12:28               ` GIT vs Other: Need argument Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-19 12:37                 ` Marcin Kasperski
2007-04-19 13:32                   ` Johannes Schindelin
     [not found]           ` <200704172239.20124.andyparkins@gmail.com>
2007-04-19 11:59             ` Marcin Kasperski
2007-04-19 12:48               ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-19 12:57               ` Andy Parkins
2007-04-20  6:22               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-04-20 13:03                 ` Eric Blake
2007-04-18 12:40       ` Guilhem Bonnefille
2007-04-18 13:26         ` Andy Parkins
2007-04-18 17:08           ` Steven Grimm
2007-04-19  0:33             ` Jakub Narebski
2007-04-19  1:24               ` Steven Grimm
2007-04-19  2:08                 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-04-19  8:48                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-19  8:57                     ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-19 19:03                     ` Steven Grimm
2007-04-19 21:00                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-04-19  2:11                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-19  6:02                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-19 18:18                     ` Steven Grimm
2007-04-19 23:30                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-20  5:32                         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-04-20  9:04                         ` Jakub Narebski
2007-04-20 10:18                         ` Karl Hasselström
2007-04-20 10:39                           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-20 13:57                             ` Petr Baudis
2007-04-20  8:36                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-20 16:42                         ` Steven Grimm
2007-04-18 20:54           ` Yann Dirson
2007-04-18  3:09     ` Sam Vilain
2007-04-18 20:49   ` Yann Dirson
2007-04-25  8:55   ` Dana How

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