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All fair points. So what can we actually do about it?
by goerz 10y ago
All fair points. So what can we actually do about it?
- thunderbong 10y agoUse something better? Like Fossil? I find Fossil way, way more friendly and useful for individual users and teams. http://fossil-scm.org/ http://fossil-scm.org/
- dispose13432 10y agoBut the major hosts don't support it.
- nercht12 10y agoNever heard of it before. Thanks! How's the learning curve?
- goerz 10y agoWell, I meant how do we actually make git better? It has become and absolute standard and is not going away anytime soon. Everyone knows it, and there's a huge ecosystem around it (last but not least Github). I actually think there's a lot of benefit to that kind of standardization. Personally, I actually like git, but that doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't be improved. I don't see switching to some relatively obscure alternative (or even to mercurial) as a satisfying solution. Of course, anybody who wants to do it should feel free, but that limits your possibilities for collaboration with the community at large.
- arunc 10y agoHonestly, use mercurial.
- dispose13432 10y agoMaybe if GitHub/GitLab allowed me, I'd do so. Even SVN, honestly.
- thethirdone 10y agoIt is not hard to use Github with mercurial. I don't have personal experience with gitlab though. Why would you prefer SVN over git? I find git to be infinitely better than SVN. DVCS is a pretty good paradigm and the biggest (valid) complaint I have seen about git is that several of the commands such `git checkout` have multiple meanings which isn't a big enough deal to lose DVCS.
- tjbiddle 10y agoIt's open source; make suggestions, contributions, have a voice.
- goerz 10y agoSure, but what suggestions would actually improve the situation and are feasible, both on a technical level and politically? Is it just a matter of better porcelain?