Hi!

Thank you for the input!:-) Most interesting!;)

It's nice to see that I wasn't the only one who didn't automatically forgive
'his highness', Linus Torvalds, for his parochialism, disclaimed or not!:-)
You'll 'catch more flies with honey than with vinegar', providing, of
course, catching flies is one of your hobbies and their not 'pop-flies'!;)

If there's one attitude in the world of software I admire most it's
'TMTOWTDI'; the 'byword' acronym of Perl. And even though Perl aficionados
use the term somewhat 'parochially' themselves, i.e., more than one way in
Perl, it's nonetheless a universal truism.

A particular way to handle a problem may not be the 'best' way, in fact,
more often than not, it is not!:-o More realistically, it's the most
suitable way from the available resources in the extant environment, and,
btw, it has some 'personal' appeal, for completely unrelated reasons, to one
someone involved.

I would love to see a git type of paradigm available on all platforms,
complete with a universal (i.e., not different for each platform and
maintained by unrelated teams) GUI/UI, provision for plugins, and an API. To
me, that would be the ultimate. But that whole world is somewhere in the
future still, and not here today. So, I must make due with the resources at
hand for my environment (and that I personally like!;).

This is definitely a good piece of history in software engineering to follow
as it unfolds!;)

thx,
Dave S.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Soeren.Meyer-Eppler" <Soeren.Meyer-Eppler@...>
To: <anthemion-devtools@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [anthemion-devtools] On the subject of source control...


> Eric Sink, one of the Vault Version Control system managers/developers,
> blogs about decentralised version control and raises some good points.
> He's biased of course, but his summary is nevertheless worth a read:
>
> http://www.ericsink.com/entries/dvcs_dag_1.html
>
> http://www.ericsink.com/entries/dvcs_dag_2.html
>
> http://www.ericsink.com/entries/merge_history.html
>
> http://www.ericsink.com/entries/why_is_git_fast.html
>
> cheers,
>
> Sören
>
> --
> Sören Meyer-Eppler
> software developer
> Soeren.Meyer-Eppler@...
> http://www.BuschnicK.net
>
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