From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5294 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2011 14:19:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 5286 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Oct 2011 14:19:17 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB,SPF_SOFTFAIL,TW_BZ X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il (HELO mtaout23.012.net.il) (80.179.55.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:18:59 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LT200K007NEGQ00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for gdb@sourceware.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:18:57 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.93.74]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LT200KW27RLEW40@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:18:57 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:19:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: GIT and CVS In-reply-to: <201110141435.59962.andre.poenitz@nokia.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_P=F6nitz?= Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <8339evlkq2.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT References: <201110141435.59962.andre.poenitz@nokia.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-10/txt/msg00121.txt.bz2 > From: André Pönitz > Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:35:59 +0200 > > * "Git sucks on MS-Windows". Git is usable on Windows Git _is_ usable on Windows, but it still sucks. It doesn't integrate well with a native MinGW environment, I cannot easily invoke it from the Emacs VC interface, etc. It's inconvenient. > * The timing discussion revolves around use cases where git is slower, in > the single-digit or even fraction-of-a second range. The discussion, however, > does not include any use cases reflecting workflows _enabled_ by that > "slowness" that are not even remotely feasible in the CVS world. "git bisect" > comes to mind. Use it _once_ and you have set off a life time's worth of > "wasting" half seconds on annotation. Not to mention the branching, > merging and rebasing business. It goes without saying that a modern dVCS is better than CVS in many ways. But switching to a dVCS does not necessarily mean git, there are alternatives. For example, bisecting is supported by bzr and Mercurial as well. So please don't make it sound like the only 2 choices are CVS and git.