From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <201503310317.t2V3HfV7003827@freefriends.org> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:17:41 -0600 To: 9fans@9fans.net References: <201503112030.t2BKU71p008530@skeeve.com> <7B7A4AC6-02F2-4A28-AE1F-7D43B0494706@quintile.net> <955bc2dbc48c0ff6be29118880549364@brasstown.quanstro.net> <20150313181933.Horde.3OjxgyjF1TsOiSPwmslFLg1@ssl.eumx.net> <201503191609.t2JG9KwH011496@freefriends.org> <201503191826.t2JIQaJA001312@freefriends.org> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] using git Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4c0cb876-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi All. Giacomo Tesio pretty much expressed the flow. For me, the cheap branching and excellent merging are extremely important, esp. as compared with earlier systems like subversion. The distribution development is also a huge boon; I have several contributors with write access to the main git repo; when one of them has a change that's been reviewed and is ready to go, or a bug fix, they can just commit it to the main repo and then I can get it. Like many people (I suspect), my experience was RCS -> CVS - Subversion -> Git I haven't tried the other systems, and I'm sure they all have their strengthes and that there are things I could learn from them. Git has the advantage of currently being the most popular, and also of being quite fast. A gitfs for Plan 9 sounds wonderful and there appear to be options for getting there, but it may be enough for most people to just use Linux as a bridge. Thanks, Arnold