From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Norbert Preining Subject: Re: Creating something like increasing revision numbers Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:42:56 +0200 Message-ID: <20091019014256.GE17397@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> References: <20091018144158.GA9789@gandalf.dynalias.org> <20091019004447.GC11739@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Daniel Barkalow , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 19 03:43:05 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MzhH6-0007XD-B2 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:43:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752739AbZJSBmy (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:42:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752347AbZJSBmy (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:42:54 -0400 Received: from mx.logic.tuwien.ac.at ([128.130.175.19]:49533 "EHLO mx.logic.tuwien.ac.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750846AbZJSBmx (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:42:53 -0400 Received: from gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at ([128.130.175.3] ident=Debian-exim) by mx.logic.tuwien.ac.at with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MzhGy-0001th-DZ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:42:56 +0200 Received: from preining by gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MzhGy-0004qU-9S; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:42:56 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On So, 18 Okt 2009, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > However, given what you want to do is really to stick to the SVN way of > doing things, then why don't you simply stay with SVN? Git works in a I fear so. > fundamentally different way than SVN, and if you aren't willing/able to > change your workflow away from the SVN way then there is really not much > for you to gain by switching to Git. Well, as I said in the beginning, the metadata handling of svn is a pain in huge repositories like ours with thousands of subdirectories of subdirs of subdirs and 80k+ files. That was the reason I thought about git. But I am coming to the conclusion that I will use git for my other projects, but not for that one. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining Associate Professor JAIST Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology preining@jaist.ac.jp Vienna University of Technology preining@logic.at Debian Developer (Debian TeX Task Force) preining@debian.org gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GLASSEL (n.) A seaside pebble which was shiny and interesting when wet, and which is now a lump of rock, which children nevertheless insist on filing their suitcases with after the holiday. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff