> I am sure that Git has massive advantages for some people, particularly for > large projects with huge numbers of collaborators. It was, after all, > designed for the Linux kernel: the largest software project ever (it is > approaching 18 million lines of code!)
This[1] suggests otherwise. Additionally, (apparently) at Microsoft they use Perforce internally[2]. I can appreciate that people are passionate about tooling, politics, philosophy of design, etc. but we all have to be careful about putting up cargo cult[3] arguments as reasoning for anything... [1] http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million-lines-of-code/ [2] http://www.quora.com/What-version-control-system-does-microsoft-use-internally [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult On 3/13/15, Graeme Pietersz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 13/03/15 19:50, David Mason wrote: >> You have a typo in your post: > Thanks, corrected. >> >> "only projects I use Git on are my own" >> >> pretty sure you meant Fossil in that phrase. > Thanks, yes. I prefer to use Fossil, but when I take over something that > is already version controlled it invariably uses Git, and usually Github. >> >> On 13 March 2015 at 08:40, Graeme Pietersz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 13/03/15 08:17, jungle Boogie wrote: >>>> Yes, I'm being optimistic about the userbase but we must agree Fossil >>>> to much easier and friendlier to use. >>> >>> Not always. My reply to this turned out to be rather long and a bit of >>> rant, >>> so I turned it into a blog post. I hope its not spammy to post a link >>> here >>> rather than paste it into an email: >>> http://pietersz.co.uk/2015/03/fossil-vs-git >>> >>> The short version is, Fossil is easier to use than Git, but it is not >>> easier >>> to use than Github. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> fossil-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >> _______________________________________________ >> fossil-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >> > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
