Mozilla picks a DSCM system.... an amusing read

Mozilla picks a DSCM system.... an amusing read

[Theodore Ts'o]

Unfortunately git was knocked out early due to concerns about the
quality of its Win32 support, but it's a fun read, with some amusing
artwork as side commentary:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2007/04/version_control_system_shootou_1.html

						- Ted

Re: Mozilla picks a DSCM system.... an amusing read

[Shawn O. Pearce]

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately git was knocked out early due to concerns about the
> quality of its Win32 support, but it's a fun read, with some amusing
> artwork as side commentary:
> 
> http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2007/04/version_control_system_shootou_1.html

The last article from preed on this topic was equally fun.

Interesting to see the comments on the bottom of the article;
apparently a large number of Git fans have commented about how the
Windows community didn't get involved in development, and are now
pissed that Git isn't equally available for their platform.  ;-)

There's a lot of truth in that - Windows users (that I know
anyway) just want something to work.  Even if they are themselves
a programmer, they don't want to write X, they want someone else
to give them X for free, in a fully functional state.

Which is an attitude that I never see from Linux users...

-- 
Shawn.

Re: Mozilla picks a DSCM system.... an amusing read

[Martin Langhoff]

On 4/16/07, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> Unfortunately git was knocked out early due to concerns about the
> quality of its Win32 support, but it's a fun read, with some amusing
> artwork as side commentary:

Good on them for moving onto the DSCM scheme, and "illustrating" the process ;-)

>From a git POV, this is only the 2nd-best scenario -- once they are on
hg, the barriers of migration to git are much lower. On the other
hand, perhaps hg just delivers and they stick to it. And that's fine
with me too.

cheers,


m

Re: Mozilla picks a DSCM system.... an amusing read

[Martin Langhoff]

On 4/16/07, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> From a git POV, this is only the 2nd-best scenario -- once they are on
> hg, the barriers of migration to git are much lower.

Specially if we write git-hgserver sometime soon ;-)

cheers,


m

Re: Mozilla picks a DSCM system.... an amusing read

[Alex Riesen]

On 4/16/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> There's a lot of truth in that - Windows users (that I know
> anyway) just want something to work.  Even if they are themselves
> a programmer, they don't want to write X, they want someone else
> to give them X for free, in a fully functional state.

Because you can't change anything in Windows (in almost any commercial
installation, for that matter). Often, the user get punished if he tries.
Be lazy and stupid is strongly encouraged.

Re: Mozilla picks a DSCM system.... an amusing read

[Theodore Tso]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 04:27:51PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On 4/16/07, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> >From a git POV, this is only the 2nd-best scenario -- once they are on
> >hg, the barriers of migration to git are much lower.
> 
> Specially if we write git-hgserver sometime soon ;-)

Yeah, if I could clone myself or otherwise get a few weeks of
uninterrupted hacking time, I'd be writing a bidrectional hg<->git
gateway.... it's the main reason at this point why I haven't switched
e2fsprogs to git.

						- Ted