From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Langhoff Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Version Control (was: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:55:29 +0200 Message-ID: <46a038f90904282355g43bf0cv909905f6028f054f@mail.gmail.com> References: <46a038f90904270155i6c802fceoffc73eb5ab57130e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Git Mailing List To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 29 08:55:47 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 1Lz3hp-0004j0-0E for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:55:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751258AbZD2Gzc convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:55:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750963AbZD2Gzb (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:55:31 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f163.google.com ([209.85.218.163]:33814 "EHLO mail-bw0-f163.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750724AbZD2Gzb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:55:31 -0400 Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so974586bwz.37 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:55:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=PTm6jR7plbHgCF1e5fRIkFQvs051n/1NCX4FXQ0+37k=; b=K4otH37s+KEm4h1yIOb8TYtHgp7aAWADD1r8DagUmuyZx5BKBB0xqmXsq/dlHVUyNc m72vc67wlVjs/MikRNGhqNrwLa8Jqljb/gn7g4UXZxh9yA/MU4OgoNHI7mvLa0mv8D+a 3ADOAqZbqya16p3iwZFKtxpS8ZlPYRHJnlG2k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=QwVV7imEBNSgjXaaxYLyqRa8UKYW2e5Ik5wzJUnXF0SPuSOCFbPUxLoGn+5igDLn8e Wc2h3kIu3aQVTB3T14jueTef1sTcksJ3KCvIbm7ogcmmaOUKtJYwcMeB+x6s0fAdViEk 73tyAu7fHfFUEwByllFya3lBz3i7+KDZ8FX1Y= Received: by 10.223.118.141 with SMTP id v13mr2679680faq.26.1240988129615; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:55:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Jakub Narebski wrot= e: > =A0 DON'T DO THAT. > =A0 DON'T DO THAT, SOLVABLE. As I mentioned, Eric is taking the perspective of offering a supported SCM to a large and diverse audience. As such, his notes are interesting not because he's right or he's wrong. We can be "right" and say "don't do that" if we shrink our audience so that it looks a lot like us. There, fixed. But something tells me that successful tools are -- by definition -- tools that grow past their creators use. So from Eric's perspective, it is worthwhile to work on all those issues, and get the right for the end user -- support things we don't like, offer foolproof catches and warnings that prevent the user from shooting their lovely toes off to mars, etc. His perspective is one of commercial licensing, but even if we aren't driven by the "each new user is a new dollar" bit, the long term hopes for git might also be to be widely used and to improve the version control life of many unsuspecting users. To get there, I suspect we have to understand more of Eric's perspectiv= e. that's my 2c. m --=20 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