Hi, On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Al Boldi wrote: > git@vger sometimes bounces, so let's leave lkml as backup. Fair enough. > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Rogan Dawes wrote: > > > Al Boldi wrote: > > > > Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > > > It should not turn into an endless thread led by people who want > > > > > to redefine GIT's roadmap, but experience sharing helps a lot > > > > > with GIT. > > > > > > > > Well, now that you mentioned it, if there is one thing I dislike, > > > > it's for version control to start mutilating your sources. > > > > Version Control should be completely transparent. GIT isn't. > > > > > > Care to explain? Git is quite happy handling arbitrary binary > > > content, so I find it difficult to believe that it is changing your > > > source code in strange ways. > > > > It is nice of you to ask him to explain: Unless this handwaving claim > > is substantiated, it is quite hard to argue with. > > Sure, the problem with GIT is that it stores the sources inside a > backend container that is only accessible via GIT; iow, you can't > retrieve your sources directly / transparently. That is a very funny way to define a "transparent SCM". Are you complaining about SQL servers being "not transparent"? By that definition, no SCM, not even CVS, is transparent. Nothing short of unpacked directories of all versions (wasting a lot of disk space) would. IOW the issue you raised is a non-issue. Ciao, Dscho - 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
