I just noticed that the discussion has been concluded and I was replying to an old thread. I apologize for the noise.
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Dan Knapp <dan...@gmail.com> wrote: > In my one serious attempt to use git for one of my own projects, some > seemingly-innocuous operation deleted a file on me and I lost a couple > hours of work. I agree with the people who have said that git's > documentation and semantics are highly confusing, moreso than darcs's. > For example, what does it mean to "stage" a commit? Why is there an > entire GUI window for this presumably-important action, and why do > things I think I've committed not appear in the change history or > mysteriously reverse themselves? > > If ghc went to git, it wouldn't make me less likely to contribute, but > I would do so by checking everything into a local darcs repo and using > that to track my own changes, then letting somebody else do the work > of getting them into git! Which probably would reduce the likelihood > of my patch being accepted, but I consider git a complete waste of my > time and have zero interest in learning to use it. > > Plus, while I admire everyone's willingness to consider a VCS that > isn't Haskell-based, I have to admit that there's a Haskell partisan > in me. And there are real advantages to being a tight-knit community. > If the GHC maintainers go to the Darcs maintainers and say "We > absolutely need feature X or we will have to stop using you", the > Darcs maintainers are likely to say "It'll be tough but we'll find a > way to do it." But we aren't by any means the biggest project using > Git, so the Git maintainers would be likely to say "That's nice, keep > in touch." > > Obligatory disclaimer - I've never written any code actually in GHC, > although I have used the API (I am the author of direct-plugins). But > I frequently read its code to clarify how things work, and I do expect > that it's a near-certainty that I'll be hacking GHC itself at some > point in the future. > > > -- > Dan Knapp > "An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to > be devoured." (Konrad Adenauer) > -- Dan Knapp "An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured." (Konrad Adenauer) _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
