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Re: Git vs Monotone

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 23, 2008, 19:23 UTC
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
>> ... And since the original pack-file is marked as a 'keep' file,
>> that original pack-file won't even be broken apart.
>
> Oops, isn't that something we fixed recently as a "bug"?
>
>> So completely ignoring the fact that you could do a single database with
>> git, and completely ignoring the fact that with git you'd probably use
>> branches for at least some of those 11 repos anyway, he'd _still_ have had
>> less disk space used by git unless he would do something intentionally odd
>> (like clone all the repositories over the network separately).
>
> Well, people are not perfect and they are free to express their opinions
> based on faulty understanding of reality on their blogs.  The right things
> to do are (1) ignore them on the list and not waste many people's time,
> and/or (2) educate them, but in private or in a circle where many other
> similar ignorants benefit from such education.  That is not here but
> perhaps on #monotone channel?
Hm, joined late to the discussion.

I had a lengthy discussion on pidgin's mailing list regarding my analysis of monotone [1]. I didn't go very well. I don't think they want to be educated about git.

It turns out they evaluated git as an option in the 1.0 days and they disregarded it mainly because of the size of the repo; they didn't run 'git gc'. I fail to understand why they didn't drop in #git or asked in the mailing list. That should tell you enough about their informed decisions.

Anyway, that blog post was probably a way to justify their choice after the discussion. With the added note now there's nothing that makes git a bad choice for them, but surely they will find another equally flawed reason.

Best regards.
[1] http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2008-July/006308.html
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Felipe Contreras
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  3. Petr BaudisJul 31, 2008
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  5. Craig L. ChingJul 31, 2008
  6. Sverre RabbelierJul 31, 2008
  7. Jeff KingJul 31, 2008
  8. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  9. Craig L. ChingJul 31, 2008
  10. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2008
  12. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  13. Felipe ContrerasAug 23, 2008
  14. Blum, RobertJul 31, 2008
  15. Robin RosenbergAug 10, 2008
  16. David KastrupAug 1, 2008
  17. Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git vs Monotone)Craig L. Ching, Jul 31, 2008
  18. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  19. Shawn O. PearceJul 31, 2008
  20. Craig L. ChingJul 31, 2008
  21. Björn SteinbrinkJul 31, 2008
  22. Avery PennarunJul 31, 2008
  23. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
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  26. Dmitry TorokhovAug 1, 2008
  27. Linus TorvaldsAug 1, 2008
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  29. Sean EstabrooksJul 31, 2008
  30. Theodore TsoJul 31, 2008
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  32. Sverre RabbelierAug 1, 2008
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