Re: Why is it important to learn git?

From: Allan Kelly <allankelly@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 22, 2009, 21:50 UTC
Message-ID: <9586f3420907221450p6b9df86cy62e1832d06150286@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3my6wbdfs.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Has anyone done a presentation on this (very interesting) subject with examples?

What's good about this practice/pattern? What's bad about that practice/pattern?

I ask because if not, I'd like to - with your help!

Cheers, al.

2009/7/22 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:

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> Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:08:31PM -0600, Tim Harper wrote:
>> >
>> > How has mastering the advanced features of git helped you to be a
>> > better programmer?
>>
>> I don't think that features itself make as big difference as the fact
>> Git provides you much more flexibility in choosing a more appropriate
>> workflow than you have with any centralized VCS. (Yes, you will still
>> find many Git features handy even if you work with it as you did with
>> CVS, but you will miss most benefits of Git).
>>
>> To really understand what benefits Git offers, you have to realize first
>> what is wrong CVS and CVS-like VCSes. Unfortunately, it is difficult to
>> explain just in a few words. Some implementation deficiency of CVS is
>> obvious (and it was addressed in some CVS clones like Subversion), but
>> more fundamental problems are far less obvious even for people who used
>> CVS for many years.
>
> See also my answer for "Difference between GIT and CVS" question
> at StackOverflow:
>
>  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/802573/difference-between-git-and-cvs/824241#824241
>
>> To be fair to CVS, it is far from the worst VCS. There are some insane
>> lock-based VCS, which were so painful to use (mostly due to these
>> exclusive locks but often due to some other insanity too) that anyone
>> who worked with may think about CVS as a really nice system...
>
> By the way, even if CVS didn't implement support for file renames and
> copying, at least it provides support for file deletion (as opposed to
> *khem* SourceSafe).
>
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