From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Langhoff Subject: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:55:55 +0200 Message-ID: <46a038f90904270155i6c802fceoffc73eb5ab57130e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 27 13:23:28 2009 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 1LyMdZ-0002iY-Ch for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:56:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753587AbZD0I4A (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:56:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752849AbZD0Iz7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:55:59 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f158.google.com ([209.85.220.158]:34033 "EHLO mail-fx0-f158.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753260AbZD0Iz6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:55:58 -0400 Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so2158658fxm.37 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:55:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=e4sI4pz6ZCA0o9507CXpbVm2wVaJpkAzqiQnDwuN3Es=; b=Oq4aiDznT3bmtpBM2o58ljPkdgu7qC5LNaaorSxddWbQbyJNcKmUTA3pgHNCzVaFfo lZvJiTT5sHthuRP/geUmAgEImfAbOUSIcE00Ikh/imVxPaF7lAxag5ain5lxbcbbbJS2 q4Xxx4wDPCbSK6iLOAacwc8i2GJLJ3Q9Z34yk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=hrjG7rvpCkUi0soBLppc99UNiVAakPvViuCwvpgfflGamdihnh7SJMC2bcvRkKpRuG ebHpa7ti2RXtZP1t4rtkcKdLPkaelYNjUmQz+CbiEPwIBv4Do2Lhb3yDoFP85RKDQZh1 fGEx3pnRiZkksjaNg+yLPef9NSKmyqWqQBzjc= Received: by 10.223.119.84 with SMTP id y20mr1603186faq.14.1240822555752; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:55:55 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Eric Sink hs been working on the (commercial, proprietary) centralised SCM Vault for a while. He's written recently about his explorations around the new crop of DSCMs, and I think it's quite interesting. A quick search of the list archives makes me thing it wasn't discussed before. The guy is knowledgeable, and writes quite witty posts -- naturally, there's plenty to disagree on, but I'd like to encourage readers not to nitpick or focus on where Eric is wrong. It is interesting to read where he thinks git and other DSCMs are missing the mark. Maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong, but damn he's interesting :-) So here's the blog - http://www.ericsink.com/ These are the best entry points http://www.ericsink.com/entries/quirky.html http://www.ericsink.com/entries/hg_denzel.html To be frank, I think he's wrong in some details (as he's admittedly only spent limited time with it) but right on the larger-picture (large userbases want it integrated and foolproof, bugtracking needs to go distributed alongside the code, git is as powerful^Wdangerous as C). cheers, martin -- 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