From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:47:40 GMT
Subject: Re: How is working on arbitrary remote heads supposed to work in Cogito (+ PATCH)?
Message-ID: <pan.2005.07.28.19.47.38.753705@smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507282047360.30638@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Hi, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Are you really sure you want to slave git into being a "better
> Subversion"?

Since git is better than all of these, we should be able to easily write a
SVN-like porcelain, so ... ;-)

> IMHO, if you need a central repository, you should also have
> one central HEAD.

I disagree. Larger projects have multiple HEADs (stable, oldstable,
development, ...). I don't like putting those in different repositories,
you end up with a heap of housekeeping effort to hardlink duplicate
objects, all of which is going to be wasted when different people run
"git repack".

Not everybody has 100-GB disks and multi-MB Internet pipes to play with...

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