On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:02:19PM -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > 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. It's probably just a matter of writing a "git for CVS users" document. Mike - 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
