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Re: [RFC] GIT user survey

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MKMatthias Kestenholz <lists@spinlock.ch>
Date
Jun 24, 2006, 22:15 UTC
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* Adrien Beau (adrienbeau@gmail.com) wrote:
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> The results of the Mercurial survey have been posted there:
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/UserSurvey
> 
> An interesting read.

I find the answers to the question, what people most like to see improved interesting: The improvement which got mentioned most often was "merge across rename", something which git does already.

It seems, that partial checkouts and truncated history are the only things left to implement for git from this list.

I am looking forward to a git user survey!
	Matthias
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Message 9 of 17 in “[RFC] GIT user survey”
  1. Paolo CiarrocchiJun 24, 2006
  2. Randal L. SchwartzJun 24, 2006
  3. Paolo CiarrocchiJun 24, 2006
  4. Randal L. SchwartzJun 24, 2006
  5. Petr BaudisJun 24, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsJun 24, 2006
  7. Petr BaudisJun 24, 2006
  8. Adrien BeauJun 24, 2006
  9. Matthias KestenholzJun 24, 2006
  10. Jakub NarebskiJun 29, 2006
  11. Martin LanghoffJun 24, 2006
  12. Paolo CiarrocchiJun 25, 2006
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2006
  14. Paolo CiarrocchiJun 25, 2006
  15. Sam RavnborgJun 25, 2006
  16. Jakub NarebskiJul 4, 2006
  17. Pavel RoskinJul 6, 2006

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