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On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 07:57:43PM -0500, Aron Griffis wrote: |
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> Fernando J. Pereda wrote: [Sat Mar 25 2006, 06:18:52PM EST] |
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> > Well, I find it easier to understand than many other DVCSs out there... |
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> > In fact I don't think it is difficult to use in any way. Maybe pre-1.1 |
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> > versions had some syntax weirdnesses, but the 1.2 series are really easy |
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> > to use and understand... |
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> That is good to hear. It's possible that my comments were misplaced, |
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> and it would be worth my while to reinvestigate git. Personally I use |
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> mercurial daily (xen) and I've been very happy with it. |
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> I'm under the impression that mercurial is easier to use than git, |
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> mostly because of git's philosophy of providing the low-level |
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> infrastructure and expecting other projects to build user-friendly |
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> interfaces. While that split sounds good in theory, it seems to |
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> result in one interface that's powerful+complex, and other interfaces |
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> that are weak+easy. Again, that's an impression, not recent personal |
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> experience. |
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Yeah, that's a lot of people's "impression" that haven't use git before, |
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and we need to get Linus to stop downplaying it all of the time. But if |
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you've used it, you will quickly see how powerful and sane git is. I |
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don't know of anyone who has used it that doesn't just absolutly love |
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it. |
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And it's come a long way recently and is much nicer and no extra |
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"user-friendly" helper tools are needed at all. Don't be put off by the |
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70+ different git commands, just go through the tutorial and try it out |
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for yourself. |
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In short, I can't recommend git enough, it works wonderful for doing |
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things like storing my mbox archive, kernel development, shared |
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repository development of other projects with multiple developers, and |
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even handling system configuration files. |
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thanks, |
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greg k-h |
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