Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

2015-03-09 Thread Philip Oakley
From: Stefan Beller sbel...@google.com Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 3:29 AM bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity -- The part that the author misses is not all the nice (or not so) stuff about having a copy of the full repository locally, for all the reasons

Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

2015-03-05 Thread Sitaram Chamarty
On 03/04/2015 08:55 PM, Michael J Gruber wrote: Yes, that article has a few really weak lines of arguments, such as the tutorial count. Here's his definition of the main draw of a DVCS: No, the only thing that a DVCS gets you, by definition, is that everyone gets a copy of the full

Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

2015-03-04 Thread Michael J Gruber
David Lang venit, vidit, dixit 04.03.2015 01:53: On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, Shawn Pearce wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Stefan Beller sbel...@google.com wrote: bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity Indeed, a DVCS like Git or Hg does not fit everyone. And

Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

2015-03-03 Thread Junio C Hamano
Shawn Pearce spea...@spearce.org writes: We have heard this sort of feedback for years. But we have been unable to adequately write our own documentation or clean up our man pages to be useful to the average person who doesn't know why the --no-frobbing option doesn't disable the --frobinator

RE: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

2015-03-03 Thread Randall S. Becker
On 03 Mar 2015, Shawn Pearce Wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Stefan Beller sbel...@google.com wrote: bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity Indeed, a DVCS like Git or Hg does not fit everyone. And neither do centralized systems like Subversion.

Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

2015-03-03 Thread Shawn Pearce
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Stefan Beller sbel...@google.com wrote: bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity Indeed, a DVCS like Git or Hg does not fit everyone. And neither do centralized systems like Subversion. Choice is good. However... I found some passages

Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

2015-03-03 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, Shawn Pearce wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Stefan Beller sbel...@google.com wrote: bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity Indeed, a DVCS like Git or Hg does not fit everyone. And neither do centralized systems like Subversion.