Re: conversion to git

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Eric Blake wrote:
> > What is the purpose of converting to git?
>
> Primarily speed, but also security.  In particular, Bruno found a rather
> telling flaw in the CVS model of pushing all local files to the server,
> and letting the server do all the work:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-03/msg00474.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cvs/2007-01/msg00018.html
>
> Distributed version control systems (dvcs) do not have this flaw.
>
> Personally, I enjoy the speed of browsing history on my own machine with
> gitk rather than the slowness that is cvsweb.  It makes archeological digs
> through version control much faster.

Git seems to be quite new and still very Linux centric.  It is not 
even included in the 'ports' collection on my FreeBSD system (only GNU 
'git' is there which the 'git' INSTALL file says that no one wants 
anyway).  When going to install the whole thing on my Solaris box, I 
can not finish building everything without installing a package called 
'AsciiDoc' which says that it installs in the "normal places" which 
when I went to look means into the very *core* of my operating system 
unless several scripts are manually hacked.  So I look some more and 
see notes to the effect that formatting the docs will likely fail 
anyway unless I am an XML typesetting Guru.  Then I did a 'make -n' to 
see what would be installed when I installed git and see that it will 
install 139 new executable commands so that it can pretend to be emacs 
command completion if Bash is used.  Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!

It seems that in the last couple of years, a plethora of new 
versioning systems have emerged because all of a sudden everyone 
decided that they didn't like the CVS they had been successfully using 
since 1992.

Git, arch, aegis, mercurial, quilt, subversion, CVS, RCS, SCCS, plus 
many proprietary systems.  It seems that version control is becomming 
the new Babel of open source.  Before we know it every project we come 
in contact with will be using a different version control system and 
all that is left is a state of perpetual confusion in the open source 
community.

Bob
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