On Sun 14 Feb 2010 at 14:48:46 PST Chris Palmer wrote:
David Thiel writes:
Another thing that is mindbogglingly stupid is arguing on the internet
about revision control systems or programming languages.
The key question this thread needs to answer is, is it stupider to argue
about programming
On 2/14/10, Kris Maglione wrote:
> 1) We've been using Mercurial since long before the advent of git.
As a purely factual matter, this can't be correct as Matt Mackall
started work on Mercurial after reading Linus Torvalds announce he'd
got the very initial bare-bones of git working. (It all bega
David Thiel writes:
> Another thing that is mindbogglingly stupid is arguing on the internet
> about revision control systems or programming languages.
The key question this thread needs to answer is, is it stupider to argue
about programming languages, or about revision control systems? (For the
On 02/14/10 09:08, Jacob Todd wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 04:04:54PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
>> So what is your point? Everything has to be written in C? This is
>> mindbogglingly stupid. Not only is C; high maintenance, slow
>> development cycle, insecure but also extremely low level.
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 04:04:54PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
> So what is your point? Everything has to be written in C? This is
> mindbogglingly stupid. Not only is C; high maintenance, slow
> development cycle, insecure but also extremely low level.
What the fuck are you talking about? *How
On 2010-02-14, Christoph Schied wrote:
> git's architecture is is nicely layered so that one can use very
> lowlevel stuff but one also can combine it to more comfortable tools
> like git does it. The bloat you are talking about is mostly in small
> scripts that are layered above git core function
On 2010-02-13, Matthew Bauer wrote:
> Why do Wmii and DWM use Mercurial?
> Aren't they targeted at Linux systems and isn't Git a lot faster on Linux?
1) We've been using Mercurial since long before the advent of git.
2) We like Mercurial better than git.
3) No, git is not a lot faster. Each is fa
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:29:51 +0100
Christoph Schied wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 01:24:22PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
> > What a braindamaged statement, especially as git uses perl...
>
> I thought the irony was clearly visible...
>
> Nevertheless, git's core uses C, only a few scripts a
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 01:24:22PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
> What a braindamaged statement, especially as git uses perl...
I thought the irony was clearly visible...
Nevertheless, git's core uses C, only a few scripts are written in perl
and are getting rewritten in C.
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:10:16 +0100
Christoph Schied wrote:
> And i think every suckless-alarm-bell should ring when you merely can
> hear the word python ;)
What a braindamaged statement, especially as git uses perl...
Hi!
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 09:32:23AM +0100, markus schnalke wrote:
> Speed should be the least important argument, especially if it affect
> only a specific system.
Speed does matter, and it affects all systems, but i think the suckless
codebases are small enough that there shouldn't be an appa
There is also some analysis done by Google code:
http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/DVCSAnalysis
The git evangelists in the comments claim that this analysis isn't
up-to-date anymore though... but in my personal experience it is still
right for most parts.
Cheers,
Anselm
On 14 February 2010
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:14:55 -0600
Matthew Bauer wrote:
> Why do Wmii and DWM use Mercurial?
> Aren't they targeted at Linux systems and isn't Git a lot faster on
> Linux?
>
> I just wanted to know, because Wmii in my opinion is one of the most
> Unix like projects out there, and I wanted to kno
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:14:55 -0600
Matthew Bauer wrote:
> Why do Wmii and DWM use Mercurial?
> Aren't they targeted at Linux systems and isn't Git a lot faster on
> Linux?
>
> I just wanted to know, because Wmii in my opinion is one of the most
> Unix like projects out there, and I wanted to kno
See also : http://rg03.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/mercurial-vs-git/
On 14 February 2010 03:14, Matthew Bauer wrote:
> Why do Wmii and DWM use Mercurial?
> Aren't they targeted at Linux systems and isn't Git a lot faster on Linux?
> I just wanted to know, because Wmii in my opinion is one of the most Unix
> like projects out there, and I wanted to know why you'd us
[2010-02-13 21:14] Matthew Bauer
>
> [...] isn't Git a lot faster on Linux?
Speed should be the least important argument, especially if it affect
only a specific system.
> I just wanted to know, because Wmii in my opinion is one of the most Unix
> like projects out there, and I wanted to know
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