From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:24:11 +0200 Message-ID: <200807241024.11900.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <200807230325.04184.jnareb@gmail.com> <20080723145455.GS2925@dpotapov.dyndns.org> <20080723170120.GC17648@leksak.fem-net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dmitry Potapov , Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Stephan Beyer X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 24 10:25:28 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 1KLw8W-00025o-Dw for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:25:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751221AbYGXIYU (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:24:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751249AbYGXIYT (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:24:19 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:58182 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751040AbYGXIYS (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:24:18 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id h2so572396ugf.16 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:24:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=f9LQ5KoTjMYxEQfPy07na+ZnBDYeZdTBy+4FFeF1ArM=; b=YGt6szVfsmx7gBDlAOyxyX0IxDoQG+O5dC7B9nTVVGXOOZJeqiQ1fdTOsi6HIx0w9z 1EegD343XrQ34lDpitxxBR/P7xhk/wDc+W1M3ehwBBRZsfaJORGnlLLCnNvtB8LUor4Q b/IwYQ5RYZqwMR7QyJMRBkVMTIMpOQIYIjFJs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=Q66AxXhpSt4mjiUMkAqJduUZBx22a9dju/W8i5Lq/oznf2yaS17tK31C82TpXtHX8j RmiLHuEp90/3Me4ubnmRyaKEiKrTH/lt1syA+F64R2GMO8nSxVjCFFf0kC0ciT3KcXN7 Ja5JxT8anKRkzuRwLUMDbknhiT06Jm//fUUAQ= Received: by 10.66.236.13 with SMTP id j13mr690054ugh.7.1216887856855; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:24:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.11? ( [83.8.208.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m1sm3731406ugc.9.2008.07.24.01.24.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:24:15 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <20080723170120.GC17648@leksak.fem-net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 23 July 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote: > 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". Perhaps also: "Because it is popular (hype)", and I hope that "Ability to track code movement" would have any takers. Although it is hard to distinguish between 'reasons to choose' and 'favourite features' list; let's make it more 'reasons to choose' (like "feature rich"). "Good documentation", perhaps, too? -- Jakub Narebski Poland