From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can I have this, pretty please?
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:38:53 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708121135050.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85ir7kq42k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
>
> And then it struck me: Emacs has a very efficient browser for linked
> one-line information that can be expanded into complete changesets
> with diffs inside. It is called "Gnus". A newsreader.
A newsreader is mis-designed for all the same reasons SVN is misdesigned:
it sees the messages (commits) as a _tree_.
Anybody who sees development as a tree is totally bogus by definition. It
sees things forking off, but it doesn't see them merging. That's a
fundamnetal and unfixable design bug.
Of course, for news, that's ok (it might be *nice* if you could reply to
two messages and see it as a merge, but that's not how things work), so
it wasn't a design mistake for _that_.
But to visualize a history, it's useless. Merges are as important as forks
(arguably *more* important). "Forgetting" about merges is bad.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-12 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-12 13:23 Can I have this, pretty please? David Kastrup
2007-08-12 14:21 ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-12 16:40 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-08-12 18:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 19:28 ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-12 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 19:48 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 19:29 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 19:51 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2007-08-12 20:04 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 20:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 19:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 20:10 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-13 0:22 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-08-13 5:49 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 19:10 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 19:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 19:46 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 20:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 20:58 ` Govind Salinas
2007-08-12 21:35 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 22:17 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-08-12 22:54 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 20:02 ` Jeff King
2007-08-12 20:09 ` Jeff King
2007-08-12 21:51 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 23:10 ` Jeff King
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