Re: Advice on choosing git

From: Anthony W. Youngman <wol@thewolery.demon.co.uk>
Date: May 19, 2010, 00:37 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikc6_jZoMzF1VhfJBSk1DRHCNNP3puPT0Z2Usk5@mail.gmail.com>

In message <AANLkTikc6_jZoMzF1VhfJBSk1DRHCNNP3puPT0Z2Usk5@mail.gmail.com>, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes

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>On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu> wrote:
>> Noah Silverman <noah@smartmediacorp.com> wrote:
>>> 1) Size.  THIS IS MY MAIN CONCERN - If I want to sync my home, office,
>>> and server Document directories.  From what I have read, I will
>>> effectively have multiple copies of each item on my hard drive, thus
>>> eating up a lot of space
>>
>> Pretty much any version control system is going to have this problem,
>> and it gets really bad if you've got any files that aren't straight text.
>
>Note that most people probably don't need to worry about this
>nowadays.  Disk $/gigabyte just keeps dropping and is now at
>absolutely abysmally small levels.  You can only fill up your disks if
>you download tons of movies and/or create tons of VMs.
>
>If you're struggling with a laptop drive that's too small, just buy a
>new one for $100 and solve all your problems.

And create a bunch of new ones. I think you mean "buy yourself a new laptop"!

Just because YOUR computer is modern and is happy being fed a new bigger hard drive doesn't mean they all are. This computer here has 3/4gig ram. Tiny by modern standards but I can't put any more in - it only has three slots at 256Mb maximum each. And it's got a 250Gb drive but it can only use the first 128Gb (I'm being economical with the truth here, but hey...)

Anyways. Why should hundreds of people have to throw out thousands of serviceable machines just because a few programmers can't be assed to at least TRY to be economical with their usage of resources?

Cheers, Wol

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Anthony W. Youngman - anthony@thewolery.demon.co.uk