Thanks for the article Sven. As I understand it, git became popular not because it was a DCVS, but because it made it easy to branch, try something, and merge back (or continue in that branch). It is, branching was more important than distribution.
However it is good to hear somebody saying things in this direction, otherwise, groupshift happens (as it did). This paragraph is independent of whatever he is talking about and I like to remark it: "Here’s a tip: if you say something’s hard, and everyone starts screaming at you—sometimes literally—that it’s easy, then it’s really hard. The people yelling at you are trying desperately to pretend like it was easy so they don’t feel like an idiot for how long it took them to figure things out. This in turn makes you feel like an idiot for taking so long to grasp the “easy” concept, so you happily pay it forward, and we come to one of the two great Emperor Has No Clothes moments in computing." Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo 2015-03-04 6:30 GMT-03:00 Thierry Goubier <[email protected]>: > > > 2015-03-04 10:16 GMT+01:00 [email protected] <[email protected]>: >> >> >> Le 4 mars 2015 09:51, "Thierry Goubier" <[email protected]> a >> écrit : >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > 2015-03-04 9:22 GMT+01:00 Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]>: >> >> >> >> Here is a little rant about DVCS that I came across: >> >> >> >> Unorthodocs: Abandon your DVCS and Return to Sanity >> >> >> >> >> >> http://bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/ >> >> >> >> What struck my attention was that this guys (1) knows what he is >> >> talking about and (2) recognises both Smalltalk and Monticello explicitly >> >> as >> >> ancestors ! >> > >> > >> > Interestingly, one of the things he is discussing is the versionning of >> > external data (blobs). >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> This also shows that not all is fun and jolly in git(hub) land. >> > >> > >> > Of course. We do with what we have (and what is popular) :) >> >> Still, the full local github history, the ability to push to several repos >> and the surrounding ecosystem makes it very fine. No one is forced to branch >> on every single feature... I have been coming back from that for example. > > I agree. What I'd add to the git benefits is a fairly good merge algorithm > as well. > >> >> master and develop with a couple tags do the trick. > > One of the good things is the flexibility it offers. > > Thierry >> >> >> Phil >> >> > >> > Thierry > >
