Obviously positing a link to fossil-users is a good way to have mistakes
spotted!
On 13/03/15 22:24, bch 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.
I have corrected it to read "as far as I know, the largest single
computer program (in the sense of a single executable and excluding
linked libraries)". From what I have read recently I am fairly sure it
is larger than the kernels of other major OSes, and everything on the
linked page that is bigger is a collection of executables, and most of
them are assemblies of separately developed components.
I am rather stunned (and a tad concerned) that cars need 100m lines of code.
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...
I am not actually particularly passionate about DVCSs, and even if I
have got my numbers wrong. Also, getting a number wrong is not cargo
cult science. In any case, the point I was trying to make is that I am
sure Git is a good choice for a certain type of project, but I prefer
Fossil for what *I* do.
[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.
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