From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:02:38 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <200807230325.04184.jnareb@gmail.com> <20080723145455.GS2925@dpotapov.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org, Stephan Beyer To: Dmitry Potapov X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 23 18:06:14 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 1KLgoT-0001xa-Il for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:03:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752434AbYGWQCi (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:02:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751914AbYGWQCi (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:02:38 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:58887 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750799AbYGWQCh (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:02:37 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 23 Jul 2008 16:02:36 -0000 Received: from grape.st-and.ac.uk (EHLO grape.st-and.ac.uk) [138.251.155.28] by mail.gmx.net (mp052) with SMTP; 23 Jul 2008 18:02:36 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+cjUs4q5mcXa37UqUmmb/Z72oBkp1Z6qRgbVOnPL H8VhsWBKIQRD6g X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: <20080723145455.GS2925@dpotapov.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.6 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:53:27AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > > > > > 11. Why did you choose Git? (if you use Git) > > > What do you like about using Git? > > > (free form, not to be tabulated) > > > > Again, to avoid hassles with free-form: > > > > Mandatory: work, mandatory: open source project I am participating > > in, speed, scalability, It's What Linus Uses, Other. > > If we move away from free-form, it should be much more choices here. > > - Ability to work offline > - Cryptographic authentication of history. Cryptographically strong integrity check. There is no authentication. > - Distributed development (pull/push from/to more than one remote repo) > - Easy to extend functionality through scripting > - Efficient storage model > - Elegant design > - Fast > - Good community support > - Rewriting patches before publishing (git rebase, commit --amend) > - Scalability (Efficient handling of large projects) > - Strong support for non-linear development > - Support of wide range of protocols for synchronization. > ... Yeah, I would tick all of them, too. Ciao, Dscho