I’m not a committer, but I’ve built production code with a lot of source control systems and git is by far the the most cumbersome. It does one thing well, handling untrusted contributors. With trusted committers, Subversion is very nice, thank you.
Here are the systems I’ve used. * SCCS * RCS * HP history manager * ClearCase * CVS * Perforce * Subversion * git wunder Walter Underwood [email protected] http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) On May 29, 2015, at 8:58 PM, Ishan Chattopadhyaya <[email protected]> wrote: > Life is so much easier on long train/plane journeys with Git. +1. > > On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Shai Erera <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 to moving to git. > > Shai > > On May 30, 2015 6:24 AM, "Anshum Gupta" <[email protected]> wrote: > > There may be other good reasons for using git, but this is not one. > I just added one more to the list. I think most other reasons have already > been spoken about in previous discussions. I'm not trying to debate on what > is better (I think it's a lot to do with *opinion*). > > I think it's a reasonable thing to move to a system that allows for > distributed version control and makes working on multiple things at the same > time easy. But again, that's my thought. The last time the discussion came > up, I was +1 to moving and wasn't already using it a lot. Right now, I'm just > trying to work on multiple things and find git easier for that purpose. > > I just wanted to bring this back up and see if the opinion of active > contributors has changed since the last time by means of a polite and > friendly discussion. In the end, we can agree to disagree but it'd be better > than not discussing at all. :-) > > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Walter Underwood <[email protected]> > wrote: > There may be other good reasons for using git, but this is not one. > > wunder > Walter Underwood > [email protected] > http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > > On May 29, 2015, at 6:57 PM, Yonik Seeley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Walter Underwood <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> “git breaks when it tries to mirror” is not a convincing argument for moving >>> to git. >> >> I'd be +1 without that annoyance as well. As Anshum mentioned, this >> has come up a number of times in the past. >> >> -Yonik >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > > > > -- > Anshum Gupta >
