From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephan Beyer Subject: Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:01:20 +0200 Message-ID: <20080723170120.GC17648@leksak.fem-net> References: <200807230325.04184.jnareb@gmail.com> <20080723145455.GS2925@dpotapov.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Potapov X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 23 19:02:45 2008 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 1KLhjS-0002rC-Kk for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:02:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753207AbYGWRBb (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:01:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752875AbYGWRBb (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:01:31 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:47127 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752759AbYGWRBa (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:01:30 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 23 Jul 2008 17:01:28 -0000 Received: from q137.fem.tu-ilmenau.de (EHLO leksak.fem-net) [141.24.46.137] by mail.gmx.net (mp011) with SMTP; 23 Jul 2008 19:01:28 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1499303 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19kNGl45ypkJL7H40RDwZd8KPm8bKj1yBQv5B5Jay OTcEDBXNRBXIep Received: from sbeyer by leksak.fem-net with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KLhiK-000126-Ne; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:01:20 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080723145455.GS2925@dpotapov.dyndns.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.55 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, Dmitry Potapov wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:53:27AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > 11. Why did you choose Git? (if you use Git) > > > What do you like about using Git? > > > (free form, not to be tabulated) > > > > Again, to avoid hassles with free-form: > > > > Mandatory: work, mandatory: open source project I am participating > > in, speed, scalability, It's What Linus Uses, Other. > > If we move away from free-form, it should be much more choices here. > > - Ability to work offline > - Cryptographic authentication of history. > - Distributed development (pull/push from/to more than one remote repo) > - Easy to extend functionality through scripting > - Efficient storage model > - Elegant design > - Fast > - Good community support > - Rewriting patches before publishing (git rebase, commit --amend) > - Scalability (Efficient handling of large projects) > - Strong support for non-linear development > - Support of wide range of protocols for synchronization. > ... Heh, I can imagine git users reading that survey and thinking "What? Git allows me to rewrite patches before publishing? And it provides cryptographic integrity? Sounds good. *click*" Nevertheless, the list is fine ;) Perhaps also: "Good reputation". Regards. -- Stephan Beyer , PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F