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Re: Errors GITtifying GCC and Binutils

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Mar 23, 2006, 20:38 UTC
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On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, sean wrote:
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> 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.

Actually, as far as I can tell, git already has a hell of a lot more porcelain than pretty much any non-IDE type traditional SCM. Certainly more than CVS.

Yeah, I'm not counting things like Eclipse etc. I'm talking about "plain SCM" environments, ie just basic SVN or CVS. What are we missing in that department? (The only thing I can think of is a diff colorizer, which some prople seem to really want).

		Linus
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Message 15 of 43 in “Errors GITtifying GCC and Binutils”
  1. Jan-Benedict GlawMar 22, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsMar 22, 2006
  3. Linus TorvaldsMar 23, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsMar 23, 2006
  5. Jan-Benedict GlawMar 23, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsMar 23, 2006
  7. Chris ShoemakerMar 24, 2006
  8. Keith PackardMar 24, 2006
  9. Jan-Benedict GlawMar 24, 2006
  10. Chris ShoemakerMar 25, 2006
  11. H. Peter AnvinMar 23, 2006
  12. Keith PackardMar 23, 2006
  13. Linus TorvaldsMar 23, 2006
  14. seanMar 23, 2006
  15. Linus TorvaldsMar 23, 2006
  16. Shawn PearceMar 23, 2006
  17. Ryan AndersonMar 23, 2006
  18. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2006
  19. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2006
  20. Johannes SchindelinMar 24, 2006
  21. Mark WoodingMar 24, 2006
  22. Andreas EricssonMar 24, 2006
  23. David S. MillerMar 23, 2006
  24. Linus TorvaldsMar 23, 2006
  25. Timo HirvonenMar 23, 2006
  26. seanMar 23, 2006
  27. Ralf BaechleMar 24, 2006
  28. Andreas EricssonMar 24, 2006
  29. Carl WorthMar 24, 2006
  30. Andreas EricssonMar 24, 2006
  31. Ryan AndersonMar 23, 2006
  32. Linus TorvaldsMar 23, 2006
  33. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2006
  34. Ryan AndersonMar 24, 2006
  35. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2006
  36. Ralf BaechleMar 24, 2006
  37. Jan-Benedict GlawMar 24, 2006
  38. Andreas EricssonMar 24, 2006
  39. Jan-Benedict GlawMar 25, 2006
  40. Santi BéjarMar 24, 2006
  41. Eric WongMar 25, 2006
  42. contrib/git-svn: stabilize memory usage for big fetchesEric Wong, Mar 26, 2006
  43. James CloosMar 25, 2006

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