From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git wiki Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 15:04:09 -0400 Message-ID: <20060505190409.GC9937@redhat.com> References: <20060505005659.9092.qmail@science.horizon.com> <20060505163629.GZ27689@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Petr Baudis , linux@horizon.com, Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 05 21:04:44 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fc5bW-0000k7-DI for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 05 May 2006 21:04:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751626AbWEETEY (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 15:04:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751672AbWEETEY (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 15:04:24 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:51100 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751532AbWEETEX (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 15:04:23 -0400 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k45J4AZm000690; Fri, 5 May 2006 15:04:10 -0400 Received: from nwo.kernelslacker.org (vpn83-123.boston.redhat.com [172.16.83.123]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k45J4Awp018564; Fri, 5 May 2006 15:04:10 -0400 Received: from nwo.kernelslacker.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by nwo.kernelslacker.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k45J4AEv014043; Fri, 5 May 2006 15:04:10 -0400 Received: (from davej@localhost) by nwo.kernelslacker.org (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k45J49bw014042; Fri, 5 May 2006 15:04:09 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: nwo.kernelslacker.org: davej set sender to davej@redhat.com using -f To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:48:38AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > (and yes, I'm somewhat biased: in my opinion, having a > million monkeys throwing crap at the walls and encoding the information in > the patterns on monkey shit is a better format than CVS), so it would > actually have improved BK, while also making it possible to interoperate > if you didn't want to use BK itself. > ... > So that was really my "fallback" position: if nothing out there worked, > I'd rather go back to lists of patches than use CVS. I've encountered managing kernel trees in CVS both during my tenure at SuSE, and to a more involved extent as Fedora/RHEL maintainer, and I'd just like to echo how much it _completely sucks_ at times. Rebasing to a newer release is a *nightmare* that usually takes up most of an afternoon compared to rebasing my git based projects. In the event I can't persuade the powers at be to switch to git at some point for managing our packages, I'll be sure to bring up your suggestion of a million monkeys. I believe you can pick them up fairly cheap these days. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk