Re: Errors GITtifying GCC and Binutils

From: sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Mar 23, 2006, 18:12 UTC
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On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:01:14 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

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> I have to say, that one thing I've learnt during this whole git thing is 
> that other SCM's are DAMN CONFUSED.
> 
> I used to think that git was potentially hard to understand. Not so. git 
> is an absolute paragon of logic and easy-to-understand concepts.
> 
> Compared to SVN (can anybody sat "trunk/branch/tag confusion") and CVS, 
> git is not only a hell of a lot more capable, it's just more logical.
> 
> We will hereby start scouring the net for people who say git is hard to 
> understand and use, and just kill them. They clearly are just polluting 
> the gene pool.

lol, that sounds like a really good plan. Perhaps as a two pronged effort its worth changing the notion that git is primarily "plumbing". Adding some of the nice features of cogito and other "porcelains" into the core git might go a ways toward converting the few naysayers we don't kill.

Sean