Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

2015-03-09 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Stefan Beller" Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 3:29 AM bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity -- The part that the author misses is not all the nice (or not so) stuff about having a copy of the full repository locally, for all the reasons he mentions, rathe

Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

2015-03-05 Thread Sitaram Chamarty
On 03/04/2015 08:55 PM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > Yes, that article has a few really weak lines of arguments, such as the > tutorial count. Here's his definition of the main draw of a DVCS: No, the only thing that a DVCS gets you, by definition, is that everyone gets a copy of the full o

Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

2015-03-04 Thread Michael J Gruber
David Lang venit, vidit, dixit 04.03.2015 01:53: > On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, Shawn Pearce wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Stefan Beller wrote: >>> bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity >> >> Indeed, a DVCS like Git or Hg does not fit everyone. And neither do

Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

2015-03-03 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, Shawn Pearce wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Stefan Beller wrote: bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity Indeed, a DVCS like Git or Hg does not fit everyone. And neither do centralized systems like Subversion. Choice is good. However

RE: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

2015-03-03 Thread Randall S. Becker
> On 03 Mar 2015, Shawn Pearce Wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Stefan Beller wrote: > > bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity > > Indeed, a DVCS like Git or Hg does not fit everyone. And neither do > centralized > systems like Subversion. Choice is good

Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

2015-03-03 Thread Junio C Hamano
Shawn Pearce writes: > We have heard this sort of feedback for years. But we have been unable > to adequately write our own documentation or clean up our man pages to > be useful to the average person who doesn't know why the --no-frobbing > option doesn't disable the --frobinator option to the >

Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

2015-03-03 Thread Shawn Pearce
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Stefan Beller wrote: > bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity Indeed, a DVCS like Git or Hg does not fit everyone. And neither do centralized systems like Subversion. Choice is good. However... I found some passages troubling for Git