From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinishedsummary continued Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:18:17 -0400 Message-ID: <20071025181817.GD31888@fieldses.org> References: <008A7EF9-6F58-47AE-9AA0-B466797F6B1D@zib.de> <47204297.5050109@op5.se> <472070E5.4090303@op5.se> <20071025132401.GA22103@thunk.org> <4720AF05.3050308@op5.se> <20071025152159.GB22103@thunk.org> <1193335339.4522.398.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org> <20071025180451.GA6349@glandium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Federico Mena Quintero , Theodore Tso , git@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Hommey X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 25 20:18:51 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Il7IA-00031o-OQ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:18:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754095AbXJYSSX (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:18:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752550AbXJYSSX (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:18:23 -0400 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:43899 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753823AbXJYSSW (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:18:22 -0400 Received: from bfields by fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Il7He-0004l9-1N; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:18:18 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071025180451.GA6349@glandium.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:04:51PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:02:19PM -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 11:21 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > > > And of course it's inelegant. You just told us we were dealing with > > > CVS-brain-damaged corporate developers who can't be bothered to learn > > > about the fine points of using things the git way. > > > > Ignore the corporate developers who use SCMs only because their company > > requires them to. Git is not the right thing for them; some > > Eclipse-based monstrosity probably is. It's like the horrendous > > Oracle-based expense-reporting thing we have to use at Novell; I use it > > because they make me, not because I'm particularly excited about > > reporting expenses :) > > > > However, *do think* of the free software developers who have been using > > CVS forever. You won't make friends among them if you keep saying, "you > > use CVS? You are brain-damaged, then." CVS has been as good/bad to > > them as to anyone else, and they are probably delighted to get a better > > solution. That solution needs to take into account the concepts to > > which they have been exposed for the past N years. Just because your > > new concepts are better, doesn't mean that their old ones were wrong in > > their time. > > It's probably just a matter of writing a "git for CVS users" document. First google hit for "git for CVS users": http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/cvs-migration.html patches welcomed.... --b.