After 40 years of programming, I have to admit I am not smart enough to understand GIT. Yes, it works straightforwardly enough in simple cases. But it is fairly common to get yourself tied up in a knot with GIT and spend the entire day trying to straighten it out. Several times I got stuck and asked a few "git experts" I was working with. 90% of the time, they tell me, yea, something is wrong.
For the vast majority of millions (?) of companies worldwide, they all have a central repository. GIT doesn't work that way. Have a development project going on for several years with a fair-sized team. The code base grows immensely. Git forces you to download the whole damn thing - every change ever made. No one wants that! Sometimes it can take more than an hour to clone a repo! Subversion gives you the version you want and lets you switch to a different version trivially. I know GIT has taken the world by storm. Without thinking, everyone wants to use the cool stuff everyone else is using. But GIT doesn't make sense in nearly 100% of the case in the commercial world. [rant off] Blake McBride On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 8:18 AM Dr. Jürgen Sauermann < mail@jürgen-sauermann.de> wrote: > Hi Emmanuel, > > I normally update git together with SVN. But: sometimes I forget > to and I am not at all familiar with git. I get lots of error messages > from git which I do not understand. > > Maybe some git specialist can have a look at the target SYNC: > in the top-level Makefile.am and let me know what I am doing > wrong? > > SVN is far more painless for everybody so I can only recommend > to use it instead of git (command line SVN is perfect, no need for > any SVN IDE. > > Best Regards, > Jürgen > > > > On 5/25/23 14:39, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > Le jeudi 25 mai 2023 à 13:49 +0200, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann a écrit : > > Hi Emmanuel, > > thanks. Seems like python_apl.cc was not compiled for a while. > > Fixed in *SVN 1695*. > > Thanks ! > > Do I need Subversion, or will the git mirror be updated in some > 'reasonable" time ? > > (Yes, I'm aware of yur feelings towards git... Nut that's what Sagemath > uses, with erious success...). > > -- > Emmanuel Charpentier > > [ Snip... ] > > >
