Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008

From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 23, 2008, 14:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20080723145455.GS2925@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807231128090.2830@eeepc-johanness>

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:53:27AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> >    11. Why did you choose Git? (if you use Git)
> >        What do you like about using Git?
> >        (free form, not to be tabulated)
> 
> Again, to avoid hassles with free-form:
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> 	Mandatory: work, mandatory: open source project I am participating 
> 	in, speed, scalability, It's What Linus Uses, Other.

If we move away from free-form, it should be much more choices here.

- Ability to work offline
- Cryptographic authentication of history.
- Distributed development (pull/push from/to more than one remote repo)
- Easy to extend functionality through scripting
- Efficient storage model
- Elegant design
- Fast
- Good community support
- Rewriting patches before publishing (git rebase, commit --amend)
- Scalability (Efficient handling of large projects)
- Strong support for non-linear development
- Support of wide range of protocols for synchronization.
...

Dmitry