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Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary (long)

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DTDavid Tweed <david.tweed@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 5, 2007, 01:48 UTC
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On 10/5/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > > 26. Which porcelains do you use?
> > >
> > > Multiple answers (one can use more than one porcelain).
> > >
> > >   Answer (multiple choice)       | Count
> ...
> > >   other                          | 14

FWIW, I answered other there because I use my chronoversion hacky-scripts (in addition to doing some other fine-level work with at the low level git command line). Obviously it's not a general purpose porcelain and it's "deliberately not using" normal development practice because I do lots of loosely related speculative research rather than working on a well-defined "product". I was initially confused by what the index does (particularly since in those days it was often referred to as a cache) and so wrote the whole routines using low-level commands; if I was to do it again I'd have my script just call "git add" and then using the vanilla "git commit".

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  1. Jakub NarebskiOct 4, 2007
  2. Benoit SIGOUREOct 4, 2007
  3. Jakub NarebskiOct 4, 2007
  4. Shawn O. PearceOct 5, 2007
  5. Andreas EricssonOct 5, 2007
  6. Johannes SchindelinOct 4, 2007
  7. Shawn O. PearceOct 5, 2007
  8. David TweedOct 5, 2007

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