From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New sync'd branch
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:55:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbvrlfal.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zl9jk2cu.fsf@catnip.gol.com
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
> Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
>>> It saves you hours elsewhere.
>>
>> Compared against the other DVCS's? Not on my experience. git's speed
>> advantage is not *that* large.
>
> It's very, _very_ fast.
Yeah, as if showing a diff or a log in 0.1 seconds instead of 1 second
were a definitive advantage.
Slowness is a reason for rejecting a tool, but being blazingly fast is
not a compelling reason for choosing it.
> It's also far more powerful than most, and
> offers a very flexible and intuitive paradigm (when many other systems
> are still lamely attempting to follow the creaky old models).
I like git's approach wrt branches, yes.
> Anyway, it's pretty clear that many, many, very smart people really like
> git, _despite_ the strong competition. Why do you think that is?
>
> [Hint: your silly claim that it's all because of "linux worship" are
> just clueless flamebait.]
First you say that very smart people is choosing git as an evidence of
its superiority, and then dismiss as flamebait my assertion that
Torvarlds' authorship is one of the main reasons for git's popularity.
--
Óscar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-28 22:55 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 [this message]
2009-08-29 0:17 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-29 9:08 ` David Kastrup
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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