Star Git Gets Demystified and Subversion Control
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Aug 2009 12:29 UTC
General Development Distributed version control systems (DVCSs) offer a number of advantages over centralized VCSs, and for Subversion users looking to explore this model, Git is a great place to start. Using Subversion as a baseline, this articles shows how to install Git, set up a remote repository, and begin using basic Git commands.
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by renhoek on Wed 5th Aug 2009 21:18 UTC
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2007-04-29

Git is far too much GPL to be used by human beings.

For fun, compare the video of Linus talking about Git and the Mercurial guy talking about mercurial. Now ask yourself, who do you prefer?

Git : http://www.youtube.com/?v=4XpnKHJAok8
Mercurial : http://www.youtube.com/?v=JExtkqzEoHY

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RE: gnuism
by Lennie on Thu 6th Aug 2009 00:10 in reply to "gnuism"
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2007-09-22

The git talk doesn't really give any pointers how to start using git, he does however make some compelling arguments why you should use it git/a distributed revision control system.

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RE: gnuism
by sbergman27 on Thu 6th Aug 2009 00:29 in reply to "gnuism"
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2005-07-24

who do you prefer?

Linus, of course. :-)

IIRC, when Linus was shopping for a revision control system, he liked Mercurial's architecture. Which is saying quite a lot, because he disliked most everything else. Mercurial's fatal flaw was it's speed, or lack thereof.

Git is blazingly fast. But Andrew Morton himself has joked that you have to be as smart as Linus to really *understand* git.

That said, git really seems to have taken off. I do a lot of work with Django, which is a (fantastic) Python web framework. You might think that Pythonistas would gravitate toward Mercurial. But Git, Git, Git is the thing. Even though most of what it's used for could be about as well served by Subversion, or even CVS.

I must say, though, that your choice of the subject "gnuism" for this thread is way off the mark. Linus and the FSF are hardly chummy. Linus likes the "tit for tat" aspect of GPLv2. He doesn't particularly like the legal "second system syndrome" that is GPLv3.

Edit: The choice of phrase "second system syndrome" is mine, not Linus's. But I suspect he would agree with it.

Edited 2009-08-06 00:32 UTC

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