From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: DVCSes, bug trackers, and GNUness Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:07:17 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <87ipgia2m2.fsf@dod.no> References: <87sjfsshvi.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335719257 5183 80.91.229.3 (29 Apr 2012 17:07:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:07:37 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 29 19:07:37 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SOXaw-0004aR-8I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:07:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41820 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOXav-0005Tr-Is for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:07:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43129) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOXas-0005Tm-Gk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOXaq-0004Xz-MF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:07:30 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41188) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOXaq-0004Xl-FO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:07:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SOXao-0004VL-TB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:07:26 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no ([84.208.231.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:07:26 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:07:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9ZUKGEy/z+EM9BkQCKK4lZgxdYg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150139 Archived-At: >>>>> Juanma Barranquero : > I define "git fanboys" as people in one of these two categories: a) > those that would consider anything by Linus Torvalds as a gift from > heaven; FWIW Linus' snotty attitude towards existing VCSes kept me away from git for a long time. > b) those whose argument (really, they only have one) to prefer git is > that it is "fast". Hmno... my main argument for using git is the way it does branching and merging. In fact one reason _not_ to use it is the opposite of "fast". That reason is that it is so dog slow on Windows. My old debian PII 233MHz home network "server", outperforms my 64bit, 8 core monster at work on git operations (the operations I regularily use, ie. git-fetch, git-status, git-gc, git-add, git-commit, git-push). > People with a more nuanced vision of dVCS are excluded from my > definition and need not feel offended by it. People keep lumping dVCSes together, but the distinguishing feature for git isn't that it is a dVCS, but the way it does branching and merging. It's really quite, quite, clever. (See http://progit.org/book/ch3-0.html for more information)