On Sep 15, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Santiago Gala wrote:
I see the "dscm is an unsuitable workflow for collaborative development" meme as this: a meme.
I don't see it as unsuitable. I see it as different. It's different in a lot of ways, but is neither better nor worse. The insistence that it's better is no less annoying than the insistence that it's worse. A lot of my personal resistance to git has been, since the beginning, that people have told me I'm an idiot for using svn. That kind of persuasion hasn't been persuasive.
Now that I've used git, it seems like just a different way of doing the same thing. And not different in ways that I found appealing. Just different. So I had to learn how to do exactly the same things in new ways. This didn't seem like progress to me.
I've read dozens of articles about how it's so much better, including several by you, Santiago, and while I follow your reasoning, it didn't coincide with my experience in the real world. And, yes, I did use github, and I simply don't agree that using a website to manage my code is somehow more wonderful than using svn command-line tools. The reality was that, as a creature of habit, moving my stuff to a web- centric interface, made me forget about the project that I was working on. Fortunately, every time I read something about the superiority of github - which is about once a week - I'm reminded that it's out there.
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