Re: Git vs Monotone

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> ... And since the original pack-file is marked as a 'keep' file,
> that original pack-file won't even be broken apart.

Oops, isn't that something we fixed recently as a "bug"?

> So completely ignoring the fact that you could do a single database with 
> git, and completely ignoring the fact that with git you'd probably use 
> branches for at least some of those 11 repos anyway, he'd _still_ have had 
> less disk space used by git unless he would do something intentionally odd 
> (like clone all the repositories over the network separately).

Well, people are not perfect and they are free to express their opinions
based on faulty understanding of reality on their blogs.  The right things
to do are (1) ignore them on the list and not waste many people's time,
and/or (2) educate them, but in private or in a circle where many other
similar ignorants benefit from such education.  That is not here but
perhaps on #monotone channel?