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@,

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