Perhaps a better reference for the cargo cult reference in my previous post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science
:P -bch On 3/13/15, bch <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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
