Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008

> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:53:27AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > >    11. Why did you choose Git? (if you use Git)
> > >        What do you like about using Git?
> > >        (free form, not to be tabulated)
> > 
> > Again, to avoid hassles with free-form:
> > 
> > 	Mandatory: work, mandatory: open source project I am participating 
> > 	in, speed, scalability, It's What Linus Uses, Other.
> 
> If we move away from free-form, it should be much more choices here.
> 
> - Ability to work offline
> - Cryptographic authentication of history.

> - Distributed development (pull/push from/to more than one remote repo)
> - Easy to extend functionality through scripting
> - Efficient storage model
> - Elegant design
> - Fast
> - Good community support
> - Rewriting patches before publishing (git rebase, commit --amend)
> - Scalability (Efficient handling of large projects)
> - Strong support for non-linear development
> - Support of wide range of protocols for synchronization.
> ...