Re: [git-users] How does Git storing entire files rather than deltas make it superior?

Hi Michael, On 03/11/2019 20:22, Michael wrote: On 2019-11-03, at 8:28 AM, Philip Oakley wrote: But you still need to control what gets merged into mainline or master, right? If you change the management viewpoint from "control" (with all its baggage) to "select" then it's a bit easier to

Re: [git-users] How does Git storing entire files rather than deltas make it superior?

On 2019-11-03, at 8:28 AM, Philip Oakley wrote: >> But you still need to control what gets merged into mainline or master, >> right? >> > If you change the management viewpoint from "control" (with all its baggage) > to "select" then it's a bit easier to see that the managers task got that

Re: [git-users] How does Git storing entire files rather than deltas make it superior?

On 03/11/2019 15:50, likejudo wrote: 'that "Control" [aka managers from hell] has been *distributed* from the management to the user. You no longer need any permission to store anything you want into the holy shrine of the the "VCS" ' But you still need to control what gets merged into mainline

Re: [git-users] How does Git storing entire files rather than deltas make it superior?

'that "Control" [aka managers from hell] has been *distributed* from the management to the user. You no longer need any permission to store anything you want into the holy shrine of the the "VCS" ' But you still need to control what gets merged into mainline or master, right? -- You received

Re: [git-users] How does Git storing entire files rather than deltas make it superior?

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Re: [git-users] How does Git storing entire files rather than deltas make it superior?

Hi, a couple of extra comments about the theme. On 03/11/2019 00:01, Michael wrote: +1. On 2019-11-01, at 12:39 PM, likejudo > wrote: I was wondering if this isn't space inefficient - and how does it become superior to a VCS by storing snapshots rather than deltas?

Re: [git-users] How does Git storing entire files rather than deltas make it superior?

On 2019-11-01, at 12:39 PM, likejudo wrote: > I was wondering if this isn't space inefficient - and how does it become > superior to a VCS by storing snapshots rather than deltas? Some people will cite studies showing that the pack files have better compression than you'd normally expect;

Re: [git-users] How does Git storing entire files rather than deltas make it superior?

On 02.11.19 16:20, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > how does it become > superior to a VCS by storing snapshots rather than deltas? Deltas based on what? As soon as there are merge operations, you either run into ambiguities or the code is forced to prefer one branch over the other. Branches and

Re: [git-users] How does Git storing entire files rather than deltas make it superior?

On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 12:39:18PM -0700, likejudo wrote: > In Scott Chacone's book ProGit, he says that Git is different from VCS'es > in that it stores entire files rather than deltas. > I was wondering if this isn't space inefficient - and how does it become > superior to a VCS by storing