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Bram Cohen on Version Control best practices

• signa11 18y ago
  > Creating lots of branches takes a lot of time and energy, bs. it just means that your version-control sucks at that. > The history of a branch is hardly ever looked at. bs. i am sure folks look at it all the time. at least i do most of the other stuff seems reasonable though.
  • mark_h 18y ago
    Yeah, those two were the main reason I posted it actually! I don't think he was being intentionally inflammatory, and I was curious to see if any others actually agreed. Has anyone actually experimented with codeville (Bram's vc tool?)
  • SwellJoe 18y ago
    "bs." There are a few people who I would never want to argue with on a few subjects. On the subject of revision control systems, here's the list of people I would never want to argue with: Linus Torvalds Bram Cohen Tom Lord David Roundy I'm sure there are others, but I don't know them by name...and that probably means something about the ones I do know by name given that I'm not a VCS geek and I don't use any DVCS system. I'm not saying you shouldn't argue with them. I just think I know who I'm willing to take advice from merely on "authority". You'll need to be a more effective salesman of your ideas, if you're to argue successfully in this instance.