On 9/18/07, Andrew McNabb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:10:50PM -0600, Jon Jensen wrote:
> >
> > I feel the same way. Git is quite liberating, and that's due to the solid
> > design, a combination of many seemingly small features (most not unique to
> > Git), and amazing speed, which makes it a pleasure to use. I'll stop
> > gushing before Jonathan Ellis starts classing me with the Git fanboys he
> > mentioned in his excellent talk on distributed version control at UTOSC.
> > (FWIW, his favorite system, Mercurial, seems quite nice too.)
>
> I don't think I'd mind being called a Git fanboy.  I had already had
> good experiences from the end-user side of things, and I've now had the
> chance to do some low-level stuff with Git repositories.  The userspace
> utilities allow you to do everything, and they are very easy to work
> with.
>
> I tried the same thing with Bazaar a while back, and it was an absolute
> nightmare when you tried to get into bzrlib.  I don't know about hg, but
> I've heard that it's not too well documented, either.
>
> Anyway, I think Git is even more impressive once you look under the
> hood.

OK, you got me curious now.  Why did you have to do low-level stuff
with a git repository?  Was it for fun, or was it to get something
useful done?

Bryan
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