On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 12:26:49PM +0000, Roderick wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, Sean Kamath wrote: > > > Having said that, I use whatever repo projects provide. I’m not here to > > say VCS “A” is better than VCS “B”, just saying installing various > > VCS’s under OpenBSD is pretty damn simple. > > It seems to be like the wars perl vs python, emacs vs vi, etc. > > But no, there are differences: it is groupware, about workflow. > The appropriate VCS may depend on the way people works, see > for example: > > https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki
There's a lot of fluff in there which doesn't apply to Got in any way. It used to be patches vs. CVS, then SVN vs. X, and these days it is usually Git vs. X. The actual reasons why people start writing VCS tools and make certain design choices rarely show up in high-level comparisons written with the benefit of hindsight. It is important to note that Got is not Git and while I took inspiration from several other VCS systems I don't see any reason to write up detailed comparisons between Got and any other systems. Taking over users from other systems is not a goal. Those users already have the tools they need. I am writing this tool so I can use it to hack on OpenBSD for which I have already used and considered many VCS over years, including fossil: $ ls -l *.fossil -rw-r--r-- 1 stsp users - 368K Jan 31 2017 athn.fossil -rw-r--r-- 1 stsp users - 180K Jan 17 2014 avr32.fossil -rw-r--r-- 1 stsp users - 912K Dec 25 2017 bgscan.fossil -rw-r--r-- 1 stsp users - 348K Jul 18 2014 bwi.fossil -rw-r--r-- 1 stsp users - 86.0K Jul 31 2014 dolphin.fossil -rw-r--r-- 1 stsp users - 1005K Feb 7 2015 iwm.fossil -rw-r--r-- 1 stsp users - 908K Jun 4 2016 iwm8k.fossil -rw-r--r-- 1 stsp users - 736K Nov 12 2016 mira.fossil -rw-r--r-- 1 stsp users - 117K Aug 27 2013 omedma.fossil -rw-r--r-- 1 stsp users - 100K Oct 21 2013 omsdma.fossil -rw-r--r-- 1 stsp users - 97.0K Dec 16 2013 rsu.fossil -rw-r--r-- 1 stsp users - 228K May 18 2014 run.fossil -rw-r--r-- 1 stsp users - 207K Jun 5 2015 urtwn.fossil $ > (GIT has the repository inside the checkout). This is not the case with Got. By the way, thank you for trimming the list of recipients down to misc@,