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[David Roth]

I agree with Hans.

I've never wanted to be one of those people who over the years refused to
adapt to something new. But the reality is that it has to really be an
improvement, not just new to justify the change.

David Roth

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Hans Z <zaunere at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Dan,
>
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Daniel Convissor <
> danielc at analysisandsolutions.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Hans:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 02:43:52PM -0400, Hans Z wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm always in favor of CentOS.  Nothing particularly against
>> Ubuntu/Debian,
>> > but I just don't have any reason to switch to the newest trendy thing.
>> >  Sort of like moving from svn to git :)
>>
>> Well, then.  That's one more vote for Ubuntu/Debian in my book. :)
>>
>> Git (and distributed version control in general) is _so_ much better
>> than SVN.  Using Git for the past 2.5 years has improved my quality of
>> life.  I just started working at a company that's still using SVN
>> (Hi, Jesse!).  It's deadening my soul.
>>
>
> Sorry, I see it as hype... after all, all source control is distributed :)
>
> The ability to commit, branch, stash, et al, locally amazing.  Plus the
>> ability to have local hooks and the things you can do on the server with
>> hooks is mind blowing.  Here are two tools I use with Git:
>>
>> https://github.com/convissor/git_push_deployer
>> http://tbaggery.com/2011/08/08/effortless-ctags-with-git.html
>
>
> Hmm, and how is this different from svn?  Inherit in source/version
> control is the word "control" - why do I need X number of developers
> sporting their own pseudo-repository that ends having to get merged back
> centrally anyway?
>
> For open source projects, sure, github.com is the next generation
> freshmeat/sourceforge.
>
> But otherwise, for a general web development shop's projects, git is
> nothing more than extra commands to run, more conflicts, more complexity,
> and dealing with bugs that have been sorted out years ago (line endings and
> content types! git, seriously?)
>
> What baffles me, however, is that folks will also pay a public repository
> (github) to keep their code private... guess it's that nice glossy user
> interface :)
>
> The sadness of going back to SVN inspired me to make this package:
>>
>> https://github.com/convissor/ctags_for_svn
>
>
> I think this proves my point :)
>
> Sorry, but the emperor has no clothes,
>
> H
>
>
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