On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Okay, more git bashing...
>
> {snipped stuff went here}
>
> It occurred to me today that in nearly 31 years of using a computer i
have, in total, lost more data to git (while following the instructions!!!)
than any other single piece of software. Also concluded is that git is the
only SCM out there which makes SCM difficult for the simple stuff. Even RCS
is simpler to use. Sure CVS has limits, but respect those limits and it
works just fine. Never lost a line of code in CVS.
Interesting. I think I've mentioned my employer is in the midst of
converting from an svn backed model to a git based model, though slowly on
a subproject by subproject basis. I've shared this with the
git-master-chief person at work and followed it up with the following
questions / observations:
> Based on reading {Stephan's message}, what do you agree or disagree with?
> It seems to me (after reading this and thinking about version control
systems in a slightly new way for the first time today), git is focused
less on securely keeping track of source code and far more on providing a
toolbox of ways to reorganize code to "simplify" (I use that term loosely)
social interactions between developers / users of git (aka collaboration).
It's not that it can't keep track of source code, but that it considers the
social aspects / reorganization tools to be more important, while at the
same time being quite terse / obtuse in the documentation / usage area.
> Is that an unfair assessment on my part? I still readily agree that I'm a
git newbie, and even a dvcs neophyte, and the reasons I use fossil have
little to do with its distributed nature (though I'm using it more often
that way as time goes by). Also that for certain project types where large
/ deep hierarchies of collaborators are at work, fossil is probably not an
ideal solution. It certainly wouldn't work in the same way git is used by
the linux kernel team.
I'll be interested to hear back from him what he thinks.
--
Scott Robison
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