Git

February 20, 2009

Linus Torvalds’ version control hack, git, has become flavor of the month in the open source world. Not everyone is happy.

Take the common case of “I have a bunch of stuff I’ve been working on, and want to publish it now”. Trying to achieve this with git led one developer to post a series of rants: git sucks part 1, part 2, part 3.

If your VCS needs a shell script to publish some code as a new repository, you probably need to work on your usability. If the obvious command to push data to a repository actually loses changes, you may want to rethink your command structure.

So far I’ve managed to avoid git. I think I’ll try and keep it that way.

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