Re: Track /etc directory using Git

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sep 15, 2007, 16:57 UTC
Message-ID: <85642bc1ep.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <20070915163209.GA18508@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> writes:

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> also sprach Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> [2007.09.14.1020 +0200]:
>> The funny thing is that this tool is based on git/cogito but the
>> scm used to manage it is darc.
>
> They switched to git after running their heads too many times
> against darcs walls.

Since they are not using git as a source code management system nor darcs as a versioned file system, it is not particularly funny.

It's like being proud when the neighbor watchmaker borrows a hammer: "ah, I always told him that a hammer is the ultimate device for repairing a clock".

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

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