Re: Many gits are offline this week

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Oct 7, 2007, 19:04 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710071457580.23070@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071007170153.GX2137@spearce.org>

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
> > >>>>> "Paolo" == Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > Paolo> is there any material (slides, docs) you can share before the talks?
> > 
> > I've had the slides reviewed by Smarter People Than Me on #git already, so
> > hopefully most of it is accurate. :)  They're temporarily at
> > 
> >   http://www.stonehenge.com/pic/Git-2.0.3-to-be.pdf
> > 
> > I still hope to have a few hours to go in and add a few sadly missing
> > graphics, particularly on the rebase vs merge section.
> 
> What, no mention of git-gui as a porcelain?  It has more users
> than qgit according to the survey.  Maybe rephrase the porcelains
> on slide 15 as:
> 
>   Other porcelain exists:
>     - StGit ("stacked git"), guilt
>     - tig (curses-based viewer)
>     - qgit, git-gui

For that matter, gitweb is essentially a limited porcelain. And this points out that all VCSes have alternative porcelains, but git is unusual in having convenient plumbing to support and encourage this.

	-Daniel
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