From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New sync'd branch Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:08:28 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:114829 Archived-At: Óscar Fuentes writes: > David Kastrup 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