On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:
On Tuesday 2007, April 17, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Trust me. There's NO WAY IN HELL it will "work" in any other sense
than "limp along and not be usable".
Well I'm making progress, "limp along" is a significant step up from
impossible. :-)
Look, my primary objection to this is the SHOUTING about how impossible
it is even though I've tried to address every problem you've thrown at
me - I'm finding it really difficult to figure out why you're trying so
hard to dissuade me from even _trying_. If it all goes wrong (as I
fully accept it might), so be it, I can live with that; I'll even be
happy to tell you you're right and I'm wrong. Why is this such a
problem?
Keywords are so hated by everyone that I doubt they would ever be
accepted into git - it's an intellectual exercise for me at this stage
really.
I cannot do otherwise than ask at this point in the debate: why isn't
the makefile rule sufficient for your needs? Why going through a
complicated path that no one else will support due to its numerous
pitfalls?
not all uses of VCS's involve useing make
Yes, you can make your "print it out" example work, but as alreadyt
mentioned, you could have done that some other way, with a simple
makefile rule, quite independently (and much better) than the SCM
ever did.
That's just being obtuse - no other tool cares in the slightest about
the keywords, there are more "tools" in the world than just the VCS.
... which reinforces my question: why force a task on the VCS if it
doesn't fit well with its fundamental design?
becouse the VCS can do the job better then anything else? even if there are
limits to what the VCS can do.
David Lang
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