On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 11:21 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > And of course it's inelegant. You just told us we were dealing with > CVS-brain-damaged corporate developers who can't be bothered to learn > about the fine points of using things the git way. Ignore the corporate developers who use SCMs only because their company requires them to. Git is not the right thing for them; some Eclipse-based monstrosity probably is. It's like the horrendous Oracle-based expense-reporting thing we have to use at Novell; I use it because they make me, not because I'm particularly excited about reporting expenses :) However, *do think* of the free software developers who have been using CVS forever. You won't make friends among them if you keep saying, "you use CVS? You are brain-damaged, then." CVS has been as good/bad to them as to anyone else, and they are probably delighted to get a better solution. That solution needs to take into account the concepts to which they have been exposed for the past N years. Just because your new concepts are better, doesn't mean that their old ones were wrong in their time. You don't find quantum physicists saying, "... yeah, like Newton's brain-damaged followers" :) Federico - 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
