From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New sync'd branch
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:08:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d46f56nn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87prafliq3.fsf@telefonica.net
Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>>> Yes, it is reasonably easy to blow up some operation terribly if you
>>>> don't know what you are doing. Because git has lots of power. But
>>>> you always can tell it: "Ok, this was a complete messup. Give me
>>>> back what I had 20 minutes ago".
>>>
>>> I'll really apreciate a tool that does not make me waste those 20
>>> minutes.
>>
>> It saves you hours elsewhere.
>
> Compared against the other DVCS's? Not on my experience. git's speed
> advantage is not *that* large.
I did not say "hours in computing time". Hours in manual labor.
>>>> It is very hard to actually do something which can't be undone. You
>>>> have to really try.
>>>
>>> And this is different from other VCSs how?
>>
>> No impact on a central repository even when you tried some complex merge
>> and got it wrong. Nobody gets to see your damaged foot. You just
>> messed up your personal sandbox temporarily.
>
> I insist: and this is different from other VCS how?
First, it is different from all central-repository version control systems.
> Does git block you from sending your changes upstream when you messed
> up your personal repo?
Why would you want to send them upstream?
> If you screw up your personal branch, bzr notices it and maliciously
> sends the changes upstream without you asking for it?
If I screw up my personal branch, there won't be a copy upstream that I
can revert to. That's what "personal branch" is all about. In git, I
can revert my personal branch to its version of two hours ago without
ever bothering upstream, either read or write. I can reconstitute _my_
branch.
>>> The typical Emacs developer is not like Torvads. Emacs has a
>>> development style that is very far from Linux's. Every example about
>>> how well git works specifically for Torvalds is moot.
>>
>> That sounds like "nobody will ever need a car, because people ride
>> horses quite differently than they would ride a car".
>
> Often, a car is the worst option as a vehicle.
I think we can stop here.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-29 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-23 22:21 New sync'd branch Stefan Monnier
2009-08-23 22:35 ` joakim
2009-08-24 13:58 ` Leo
2009-08-24 19:24 ` Dmitry Dzhus
2009-08-25 17:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-26 8:31 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-26 19:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-27 3:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-27 4:47 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-27 5:38 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-08-28 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-27 6:33 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-08-27 7:08 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-08-27 7:14 ` Christian Faulhammer
2009-08-27 8:55 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-08-27 9:07 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-27 10:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-28 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-27 9:47 ` joakim
2009-08-28 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-28 9:12 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-28 9:19 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-08-28 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-28 13:03 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-28 13:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-08-28 14:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-08-28 17:11 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-08-28 17:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-08-28 18:00 ` David Reitter
2009-08-29 3:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-29 20:20 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-28 15:08 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-28 17:21 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-08-28 19:33 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-28 21:41 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-08-28 22:20 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-28 22:55 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-08-29 0:17 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-29 9:08 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2009-08-29 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-29 0:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-28 22:00 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-28 14:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-08-28 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-28 14:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-08-28 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-28 14:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-08-28 9:38 ` joakim
2009-08-28 9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-28 10:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-28 11:18 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-28 15:59 ` David Reitter
2009-08-27 21:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-28 8:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-27 21:52 ` Glenn Morris
2009-08-27 22:17 ` Chong Yidong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-24 22:25 Nick Roberts
2009-08-25 9:29 ` joakim
2009-08-25 14:06 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-25 21:02 ` Nick Roberts
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