Mozilla picks a DSCM system.... an amusing read

Unfortunately git was knocked out early due to concerns about the quality of its Win32 support, but it's a fun read, with some amusing artwork as side commentary:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2007/04/version_control_system_shootou_1.html

						- Ted

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

The last article from preed on this topic was equally fun.

Interesting to see the comments on the bottom of the article; apparently a large number of Git fans have commented about how the Windows community didn't get involved in development, and are now pissed that Git isn't equally available for their platform. ;-)

There's a lot of truth in that - Windows users (that I know anyway) just want something to work. Even if they are themselves a programmer, they don't want to write X, they want someone else to give them X for free, in a fully functional state.

Which is an attitude that I never see from Linux users...

On 4/16/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

Because you can't change anything in Windows (in almost any commercial installation, for that matter). Often, the user get punished if he tries. Be lazy and stupid is strongly encouraged.

On 4/16/07, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

Good on them for moving onto the DSCM scheme, and "illustrating" the process ;-)

hg, the barriers of migration to git are much lower. On the other hand, perhaps hg just delivers and they stick to it. And that's fine with me too.

cheers,

m

On 4/16/07, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:

Specially if we write git-hgserver sometime soon ;-)

cheers,

m

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 04:27:51PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:

Yeah, if I could clone myself or otherwise get a few weeks of uninterrupted hacking time, I'd be writing a bidrectional hg<->git gateway.... it's the main reason at this point why I haven't switched e2fsprogs to git.

						- Ted