On Wed, 23 July 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote: > Dmitry Potapov wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:53:27AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: >>>> >>>> 11. Why did you choose Git? (if you use Git) >>>> What do you like about using Git? >>>> (free form, not to be tabulated) >>> >>> Again, to avoid hassles with free-form: >>> >>> Mandatory: work, mandatory: open source project I am participating >>> in, speed, scalability, It's What Linus Uses, Other. >> >> If we move away from free-form, it should be much more choices here. >> >> - Ability to work offline >> - Cryptographic authentication of history. >> - Distributed development (pull/push from/to more than one remote repo) >> - Easy to extend functionality through scripting >> - Efficient storage model >> - Elegant design >> - Fast >> - Good community support >> - Rewriting patches before publishing (git rebase, commit --amend) >> - Scalability (Efficient handling of large projects) >> - Strong support for non-linear development >> - Support of wide range of protocols for synchronization. >> ... > > Heh, I can imagine git users reading that survey and thinking > "What? Git allows me to rewrite patches before publishing? > And it provides cryptographic integrity? Sounds good. *click*" > > Nevertheless, the list is fine ;) > Perhaps also: "Good reputation". Perhaps also: "Because it is popular (hype)", and I hope that "Ability to track code movement" would have any takers. Although it is hard to distinguish between 'reasons to choose' and 'favourite features' list; let's make it more 'reasons to choose' (like "feature rich"). "Good documentation", perhaps, too? -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- 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
