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92 slides is a bit long for the points the author is making, although it's hard to say without hearing the talk. Basically the author prefers GIT and mercurial
by metachris 16y ago
92 slides is a bit long for the points the author is making, although it's hard to say without hearing the talk.
Basically the author prefers GIT and mercurial over subversion because of easier branching, and argues for having multiple versions of the backend running in order to switch between them with with configs in your code (eg. cfg["use_new_awesome_backend"] = 1) in multiple variations (eg. if (rand(0,99)<10) cfg[".."]=1, etc).
- carbocation 16y ago>Basically the author prefers GIT and mercurial over subversion because of easier branching That wasn't exactly the conclusion I got out of it. I felt like he expressed a slight preference for git and mercurial, but at the end he asked for people to envision what a web/SAAS version control system should really look like, since none of the 3 fit that bill, in his opinion. (I agree with the second half of what you wrote that I'm not quoting here.)
- metachris 16y agoTrue, I missed the point in the first part. Thanks for pointing that out.
- erikpukinskis 16y agoMost of the slides are blank, single sentences, or changes in highlighting. I'm sure they were flipping through them pretty quickly and just using slides to give certain phrases extra punch. See also: Lawrence Lessig's presentation on Free Culture (http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html) That's probably 1000 slides, but they are used expertly to deliver a clear, concise message.