From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:46:06 -0500 Message-ID: <20061024164606.GI17019@over-yonder.net> References: <87zmbozau2.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <20061022185350.GW75501@over-yonder.net> <20061023222131.GB17019@over-yonder.net> <845b6e870610231614y681e64eu33bb0806f530c742@mail.gmail.com> <20061024002657.GD17019@over-yonder.net> <20061024003834.GE17019@over-yonder.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jakub Narebski , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org, Erik =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E5gfors?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 24 18:48:16 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 1GcPR0-0007MZ-Gn for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:47:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030276AbWJXQqM (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:46:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030424AbWJXQqL (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:46:11 -0400 Received: from ns.centralmiss.com ([206.156.254.79]:42966 "EHLO optimus.centralmiss.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030276AbWJXQqI (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:46:08 -0400 Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (adsl-072-148-013-213.sip.jan.bellsouth.net [72.148.13.213]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by optimus.centralmiss.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8010F28430; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:46:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id F0D9761C57; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:46:06 -0500 (CDT) To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11-fullermd.3 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:42:23PM -0700 I heard the voice of Linus Torvalds, and lo! it spake thus: > > Well, I would use the globally unique ones, certainly. It's the only > thing that makes sense. So would I, and it is. > Using the _same_ names everywhere is just better. This is just where we split on it. All else being equal, sure, but all else is never equal. Most of my time is spent working forward along one branch (different branches at different times, of course, but at any given moment I'm almost certainly only concerned about one branch), and having a different and advantageous localized naming scheme there is a benefit I celebrate. If most of my time were instead spent comparing and contrasting and intersecting and cross-breeding branches, it would probably be as worthless to me as it apparently is to you. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.