From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin Langhoff" Subject: Re: Call Me Gitless Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:40:09 +1200 Message-ID: <46a038f90808171740ncfa74fg99c546abc6dd65d0@mail.gmail.com> References: <4b6f054f0808171702q10d89dfey98afa65634d26e91@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Git Mailing List" To: Trans X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 18 02:41:19 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 1KUso8-0001Ud-TA for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:41:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752203AbYHRAkM (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:40:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752172AbYHRAkL (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:40:11 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.168]:32842 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751786AbYHRAkK (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:40:10 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so2796663wfd.4 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:40:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=/D/ExJ44ZkiGH9BOFJomcre2TTzEyRKxggT/31ygaDA=; b=N5r9jtc0ePP8tad4b//FlOF0hGv8I6LSIDe+Cc2/82D5Pp544sVXfkzSLzJ1ccJi8k CvnZGzWJotVSH2O3o9TfONtqbfVUn1d6d4FNbehbdUQZgt7QwXh7akx/w8dqFy65UATZ Kp38B9PMMEUlyJPrwin/3wZMsJdSZywIQ6yVE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=tf0uHcYlBVPOM+VShkyIBYdKrNfqk9dNJzqvcngw+XqvtLgYP6Z8mQkczsJ7gn+3ae oIH+dY8vL6KCfvgBZSROHjwjdiHX/kRMkW8hOOMYRpTDb0B8KwvoZlNf5uz+YEM+VFGb /JtZlndiYw4SZC0qT2jZcMYZ9K9NJhb2ZsPkg= Received: by 10.142.174.8 with SMTP id w8mr1841157wfe.4.1219020009410; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.43.6 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:40:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4b6f054f0808171702q10d89dfey98afa65634d26e91@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Trans wrote: > Well, after a few days of using git, I've decide Linus is too smart to > be designing end-user interfaces. I think you'll find all the current DSCMs have converged to a similar core set of commands. Commit/diff/log are in the same place as anyone would expect. The main difference from the svn/cvs world is the push/pull pair. The only really new thing that git brings to bear is that we have an index and our doco is slightly more jargon-laden (but several of the intros that abound 'round the net are fantastic). In any case, have safe travels. A lot of people have found Hg to be almost the same but simpler, and a good part of them have later come back to git. Others have had a similar experience with BazaarNG. Things are far from settled. DSCMs have mostly sane storage models, so it's possible to write lossless importers/exporters. So you can transform your git repos into hg, and do the reverse trip if/when you want to try git again. enjoy, m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff