Re: Version control

Daniel Pittman <[email protected]>
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invisible ink <[email protected]> writes:
> Daniel Pittman:
>
>> > I have used GNU Arch
>>
>> Don't do it!  You don't need that much pain in your life.  Very user
>> hostile UI, and not very popular.
>
> Arch was a necessary stepping stone in the development of DVCS in general,
> leading to baz and then bzr. The creator(s) of Git did not experience or
> learn from this history, so many otherwise-sensible developers are now
> passionately defending an idiotic user experience because it represents
> their first sniff of the power of DVCS.

I don't quite follow what you are trying to say, I think.  Would you be
kind enough to correct me if I have misunderstood your point:

You believe that git has an appallingly bad UI, which is one of the
mistakes that arch made.

You believe that many developers first encountered a DVCS when they used
git, so now they defend the poor UI since they have mistaken the
technology (DVCS) for the implementation (git).


I /think/ that is what you were trying to say, and on that basis I still
have one question:

You seem to consider arch and git to be bad choices.  What do you
suggest people use, then, and why?

Regards,
        Daniel
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