On 3/13/15, Graeme Pietersz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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)".
Sure -- I would just say "massive codebase" to get the point across and make it more future-proof... >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. No, incorrect numbers are not examples of cargo cult science but saying "Linux is great, Linux uses git, so git is great" is more along the lines that I was thinking. To be clear, that previous sentence doesn't preclude git from being great -- but that "Linus likes it" isn't what makes it so. -bch > 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. >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
