Linus Torvalds discussing source control programs and GIT

[Alex Beamish]

Well, the security thing is solved very nicely by gitolite, and the branch
visualization is handled by a variety of tools like gitk. Git's also a
decent standard -- for me it's the best choice.

And the 'weak' support for Linux doesn't help matters.

Alex


On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 2:48 AM, ted leslie <ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> http://www.plasticscm.com/comparisons/index.html
>
> this is the total ass kicking it puts on the competition :)
>
> -tl
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 2:46 AM, ted leslie <ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> You should check out PlasticSCM it makes GIT and Mercurial just seem out
>> dated and underpowered, but that is for good reason, they make sure they
>> take any good feature anyone has and grab it into their. Easiest SCM to use
>> to boot.
>> Works on Linux, Win, OSX, Unix's
>> Its actually painful, because once you use it, and then inevitably you
>> have to go back to git for something,
>> because your into a project that uses it, and man its so depressing.
>> Its gui pipes through command line (and accessible api) but the GUI is
>> just sooooo nice. Can backend via mysql, etc.
>> Don't go near it if you don't want to be blown away with pure SCM
>> goodness.
>> Also, I can't recall the argument, but GIT isn't a real dvcs like plastic
>> is, but you will have to read their faq to understand their argument.
>> Plastics really the only game in town.
>>
>> SVN is never the right choice.
>>
>> -tl
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Ben Walton <bdwalton-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>> He's right. :)
>>>
>>> There are corner cases where the file view is still better than
>>> content view, but for 99.9% of the cases out there, managing file
>>> content is much saner and far more powerful. If your project isn't
>>> absolutely massive (it's not) in terms of file/directory count, using
>>> something like subversion is not the right choice.
>>>
>>> I personally prefer git as it's a real power tool, but mercurial would
>>> also be a workable choice. Interestingly, it seems that git and
>>> mercurial are the only two real choices left in the dvcs field...all
>>> others seem to have fallen by the wayside.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -Ben
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Paul King <sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> > Wasn't aware of this video. Was wondering what others thought of
>>> Torvalds'
>>> > opinionated view of different types of source control software ... ?
>>> >
>>> > http://youtu.be/idLyobOhtO4
>>> >
>>> > Paul
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Alex Beamish
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