Re: GNU diff

2011-01-27 Thread Neil Brewitt
On 27 Jan 2011, at 14:47, Tony Finch wrote: Oh man, and there was I thinking you were trying to be satirical. I especially laughed at your advice on reverting changes. "Boldly going forward 'cause we can't find reverse!" Tony, I'm always happy to present hard empirical data to hates-softwar

Re: GNU diff

2011-01-27 Thread Neil Brewitt
On 27 Jan 2011, at 12:50, Marco Von Ballmoos wrote: On Jan 27, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Neil Brewitt wrote: Nicholas, Anyone who hates perforce is a victim of bad education or software religion. I can't agree here. I'm a long-time user of Perforce as well and evangelized it

Re: GNU diff

2011-01-27 Thread Neil Brewitt
On 27 Jan 2011, at 11:49, Philip Newton wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:45, Neil Brewitt wrote: Reverts too difficult for you? Then don't revert changes. Use the software how it's meant to be used. Oh, right. I completely forgot that developers exist to serve tools the way the

Re: GNU diff

2011-01-27 Thread Neil Brewitt
Nicholas, Anyone who hates perforce is a victim of bad education or software religion. It's faster, it's safer, it's lighter. It just works. Reverts too difficult for you? Then don't revert changes. Use the software how it's meant to be used. In a live perforce install for twenty developers I

Re: bash

2010-10-25 Thread Neil Brewitt
Bash lets me work every day, despite its shortcomings. Just start me on Finder. Neil PS and top posting. On 19 Oct 2010, at 00:02, Daniel Pittman wrote: Nicholas Clark writes: Dear bash, Why do you insist on hashing the paths to commands. And never expiring the cache. Or detecting that

Re: Perforce branch views

2008-08-27 Thread Neil Brewitt
On 27 Aug 2008, at 07:37, Joshua Juran wrote: Perforce does not have branches. The notion of a "branch" of development is implemented in different ways by different SCM tools. For me, CVS' invisible branching scares the hell out of me - it's too easy to get non-sticky stuff mixed with st