Re: Why GIT, guys? Really...

That port isn't getting opened up. It should use port 80 like everything 
else can.

I read the subversion paragraph and it still makes no sense:

Multiple backends are not a bad thing, regardless of you how you try an spin 
it. The closest a concrete reason against subversion that ever comes up is 
that he doesn't like the filesystem backend because he doesn't understand it 
and then goes off on a rant about how that could be bad over NFS. (Noone 
runs a subversion repository that fronts an NFS drive.)

There's never any citation from Mozilla saying, you know SVN is really big 
and that is bad. In fact, there are several citations out there you can find 
that will explain why that was a good choice. Guess what - works over 
firewalls is one of the things that they like. I never read about kernel.org 
tipping over either from not using GIT. Strange actually that GIT isn't even 
in the top 5 SCM systems used on planet earth... I mean its just so great

If you really care that much about the number of files or size of them, you 
could plugin another backend! Wait a second... this might be crazy but, if 
you think the google backend is too slow you plugin a caching backend that 
wraps googles! Now this gets really crazy, but if you still think thats not 
reliable enough - you could plugin a backend that decorates another with 
some checksums, writes to an additional location. But come on, its crazy, 
this multiple backend stuff ... I mean, what is the world coming to. What if 
someone wrote an interface that would provide some abstraction over multiple 
kinds of graphics hardware backends... why, that's just nuts! Madness I tell 
you!

Ultimately, Keith just picked something he liked and didn't really consider 
things like usability. He just decided he liked GIT.


>From: "Jerome Glisse" <[email protected]>
>To: "First Last" <[email protected]>
>CC: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Dri-users] Why GIT, guys? Really...
>Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:57:13 +0100
>
>On 3/22/07, First Last <[email protected]> wrote:
>>Well, I have no problems with CVS or SVN and I can do nothing about my
>>firewall.
>>How can I get the source? There are no tar balls any more. It just seems
>>insane that I can get every other source on the planet, X's, Gnomes's, all
>>of the base libraries, etc - but not Mesa.
>
>git clone http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm
>Should work even behind a firewall. Btw git use port 9418
>you may want to ask to your admin to allow that one.
>
>>(BTW, in keiths posts he never makes on concrete argument against using
>>something sane like SVN. He mentions a lot of problems w/ CVS solved by 
>>SVN
>>and later just says, its apparent that SVN isn't the answer for me ... 
>>which
>>would be WHY?)
>
>You apparently missed the paragraph on subversion (which is svn).
>
>best,
>Jerome Glisse
>
>> >From: "Jerome Glisse" <[email protected]>
>> >To: "First Last" <[email protected]>
>> >CC: [email protected]
>> >Subject: Re: [Dri-users] Why GIT, guys? Really...
>> >Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:37:37 +0100
>> >
>> >On 3/22/07, First Last <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>Can anyone tell me how I'm supposed to get the source which is now 
>>behind
>> >>GIT?
>> >>
>> >>$ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm
>> >>defaulting to local storage area
>> >>warning: templates not found /home/dag/share/git-core/templates/
>> >>fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection refused)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>I guess someone decided the standard CVS & SVN was too well know/tested 
>>so
>> >>they chose GIT
>> >>
>> >
>> >I believe you are behind some strange firewall or that you got
>> >a too old git. The same command works perfectly for me on
>> >several computers.
>> >
>> >Btw, i think git is among best free code repository system out there.
>> >Keith did give a good overview why :
>> >http://keithp.com/blog/Repository_Formats_Matter.html
>> >http://keithp.com/blog/Tyrannical_SCM_selection.html
>> >
>> >best,
>> >Jerome Glisse
>>
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