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 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
