On 1/18/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The _real_ majority of the programmers desperately need a better > VCS than CVS, SVN, Perforce, SourceSafe, ClearCase, etc. Yes. But... Yesterday I had a conversation with the software configuration management guy at my day-time-pays-the-bills organization. They are seriously looking at Perforce and ClearCase, as these are lightyears ahead of what we have already (PVCS Version Manager). They also have 1-800-my-vendor telephone numbers which you can call and scream at someone when the tool corrupts its internal database[*1*], or when you cannot figure out what the "Checkout" action in the context menu does[*2*]. However my fellow developers and I use Git. We export our changes out to PVCS Version Manager via an *ugly* Perl script that I would never actually wish on anyone (which is one reason why its not contributed as git-pvcsexport). Configuration management guy won't even look at Git's real strengths as it lacks the all-important 1-800-git-help[*3*] phone number.
Of course, he is the who'll do the yelling. It's you who'll need support. Standard Perforce replies: "it is not supported" (if you need branches as in Git), or "we will probably look into it" (if you point them to a bug. They never really do). Worst performance in the industry, too. ClearCase had a sleep(6 /*sec*/) before writing a file in local checkouts on linux, for whatever reason :) It at least knows about oriented graphs. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html