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=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz Subject: Re: svn versus git Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:00:54 +0100 Organization: SelfOrganizing Message-ID: <200612142000.54409.arekm@maven.pl> References: <200612132200.41420.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:18:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Greylist: delayed 990 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:17:38 EST User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <200612132200.41420.andyparkins@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Authenticated-Id: arekm 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 1Guw5m-0000Zf-Oi for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:18:07 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751969AbWLNTRj convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:17:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751970AbWLNTRj (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:17:39 -0500 Received: from outgoing1.smtp.agnat.pl ([193.239.44.83]:47159 "EHLO outgoing1.smtp.agnat.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751969AbWLNTRj convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:17:39 -0500 Received: from [83.11.30.20] (helo=[192.168.0.64]) by tekla.agnat.pl with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GuvpC-0003Cu-Sz; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:00:59 +0100 To: Andy Parkins Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 13 December 2006 23:00, Andy Parkins wrote: > Hello, > > With all the discussion about user interface difficulties, I started = to > write a comparison with subversion document. (I was assuming that pe= ople > find subversion easy). As much as I love git, I was expecting to fin= d that > it's hard to use interface would have subversion as the clear winner.= I > was hoping that would then give guidance as to what could be fixed in= git. > > I was surprised, therefore, to find that in each case I was finding t= hat > git was the winner. subversion is a winner when it comes to options handling (especially --= help)=20 and better (error) messages. That's one of reason why people find it ea= sy. ps. I'm blind or there is no documentation about what utilities are nee= ded to=20 get git fully working? (like sed, coreutils, grep, rcs package (merge t= ool=20 afaik needed)...).=20 --=20 Arkadiusz Mi=B6kiewicz PLD/Linux Team