From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: svn versus git Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:42:08 +0000 Message-ID: <200612141042.09453.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <200612132200.41420.andyparkins@gmail.com> <200612140908.36952.andyparkins@gmail.com> <7vodq695ha.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=QwcNeuQb31aOE5kFqORELpXLFnmHmBQkvvcTkdioy9oVW1UIOA6XeFvJ2SXPnfCZplIvGXtUJcW6GoY8M8QBKohfXOt1g+F+iq5FU1WTX+eK7kKVj9y2hwdc/r3TR69iNuMpqS0g4wyv9+ZEU/Dt1lzAh+wBQupG0Jlx/cxv7M4= User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <7vodq695ha.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Guo2f-0007vt-7x for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:42:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751941AbWLNKmS (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:42:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751932AbWLNKmS (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:42:18 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:19303 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751941AbWLNKmS (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:42:18 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so455136uga for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:42:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.103.7 with SMTP id f7mr1200966ugm.1166092936420; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:42:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from dvr.360vision.com ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id k2sm1864278ugf.2006.12.14.02.42.12; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:42:14 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 2006 December 14 09:44, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I would say pretending as if cat-file is a Porcelain is the > unfair part. I had to; there is no other equivalent of "svn cat" in git. > Again, mistaking ls-tree as if it was a Porcelain is the true > cause of the newbie confusion. Again, there is no other equivalent of "svn list" in git. > If a Porcelain level "ls" is needed (and I am doubtful about > usefulness of "svn list -r538" like command), that is the Me too. I was in no way advocating that git should try to be SVN (shudder). As I was comparing though, I had to pick git commands that did at least what SVN could do. > command you would want to teach about using ls-files and ls-tree > depending on what the end users want in their workflow. Personally, I think qgit fills an awfully big hole in svn that makes them all irrelevant. qgit is a much better repository browsing tool than "svn list" is. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE