On 23 Mar 2009, at 19:12, Ciaran wrote:
> Currently Git appears to be evil, it hurts my head, my commit logs > on github are embarrasing at best <g> > -cj. Last project I worked on where I couldn't choose my own SCM, I got to pick between SVN and git. I went with git on the basis that it'd let me work in a more atomic, darcs-like cherry-picking manner, rather than the "daily backup to subversion" strategy I was used to with SVN. After a few weeks trying to remember how to use the interface, I gave up and just started doing `git commit -a`. Git, I'm sorry to say, is to SCM as Gentoo is to Linux distros. Fine if you can figure out how the hell it works, not good if you want an easy way to manage source. I think if I had to choose an SCM for a large team, I'd give a good look at Bazaar, which has some compelling features[1]. For small teams and individual I'm sticking with darcs (although I recently ran into a nasty, albeit rare, bug with that). It seems strange, but after all these years, the problem of source control still isn't solved. I suspect Camp[2] maybe the answer, but that is a way off. Oh, and Ruby is WAAAAAAAAAAY behind pretty much any other language in being the implementation language of an SCM!!! [1] http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrWhy [2] http://projects.haskell.org/camp/ -- http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran http://aviewfromafar.net/ http://twitter.com/ashleymoran --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
