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Revision Control Debate

Subject: Revision Control Debate

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4 messages between Feb 7, 2008 and Feb 7, 2008.

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Curtis Spencer· Feb 7, 2008, 17:48 UTC · lore

Hi,

I am one of the maintainers of Cruxlux, a fairly new platform for structured online debates, question and answer, and live blog conversations. The structured format allows rapid point-counterpoint interaction, exposes spin, prevents people from talking past each other, and intuitively lays out the arguments on a given issue.

We currently have a question on there about which VCS to use on a new open source project: http://www.cruxlux.com/question/view/1095 and it would be cool to get some git supporters in there.

I want to expand this debate further by getting the experts in the field to chime in. Secondly, we are planning a podcast roundtable session to accompany the answers to this question , and if anyone in this list would like to participate for git, please contact me at info@cruxlux.com or respond here. We are scheduling it for early next week. The idea would be to get someone from each vcs project (mercurial, git, monotone, subversion, bazaar, and more) to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their projects, and then to have a discussion about what new features (if any) should go into VCSs in the next few years.

Thanks for reading,

Curtis Spencer Cruxlux

Alex Riesen· Feb 7, 2008, 19:27 UTC · re: Curtis Spencer · lore

Re: Revision Control Debate

Curtis Spencer, Thu, Feb 07, 2008 18:48:23 +0100:

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> I am one of the maintainers of Cruxlux, a fairly new platform for 
> structured online debates, question and answer, and live blog 
> conversations.  The structured format allows rapid point-counterpoint 
> interaction, exposes spin, prevents people from talking past each other, 
> and intuitively lays out the arguments on a given issue.
>
> We currently have a question on there about which VCS to use on a new open 
> source project:
> http://www.cruxlux.com/question/view/1095
> and it would be cool to get some git supporters in there.

It would. But it locks Firefox up and does not seem to allow to add anything to the "debate": I had to kill mine twice before giving up. Others seem to have the same problem: SVN is listed twice in the responses to the question (I guess they were just more persistent than me or just more used to do the same boring thing).

Curtis Spencer· Feb 7, 2008, 19:42 UTC · re: Alex Riesen · lore

Re: Revision Control Debate

Alex,

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> It would. But it locks Firefox up and does not seem to allow to add
> anything to the "debate": I had to kill mine twice before giving up.
> Others seem to have the same problem: SVN is listed twice in the
> responses to the question (I guess they were just more persistent than
> me or just more used to do the same boring thing).

Thanks for trying. I use firefox 2.0.0.11 on linux, but I haven't had the same problem. Those pesky SVN people. If you have some points to make, i can add them for you under the git someone else added.

-Curtis

Alex Riesen· Feb 7, 2008, 21:39 UTC · re: Curtis Spencer · lore

Re: Revision Control Debate

Curtis Spencer, Thu, Feb 07, 2008 20:42:13 +0100:

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> Alex,
>
>> It would. But it locks Firefox up and does not seem to allow to add
>> anything to the "debate": I had to kill mine twice before giving up.
>> Others seem to have the same problem: SVN is listed twice in the
>> responses to the question (I guess they were just more persistent than
>> me or just more used to do the same boring thing).
>
> Thanks for trying.  I use firefox 2.0.0.11 on linux, but I haven't had the 
> same problem.

Same Firefox here.

It may have some interactions with Adobe's flashplayer (failed to freeze the browser after all tabs with flash were closed). Or maybe it just wants to have the browser for itself exclusively.

... Nah, it just freezes periodically anyway.

> Those pesky SVN people.  If you have some points to make, i 
> can add them for you under the git someone else added.

I have to say it took a while to find where the points could be added I added another "response" to the git's assertion.