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> You can apply these nouns and verbs to a lot more than just source code version control. Do you have any examples of people (other than you) who have actuall

> You can apply these nouns and verbs to a lot more than just source code version control. Do you have any examples of people (other than you) who have actually done this? It would make your argument much more convincing. Also, the fact that other DVCS's have different, incompatible models underlying them suggests that Git's nouns and verbs are not nearly as universal as Unix pipes. If Git's nouns and verbs were universal, Git could subsume other DVCS's (ie. you could implement other DVCS's semantics on top of Git with performance as good or better than what they have already).

apenwarr 16y ago
Many of the new "nosql" databases use a lot of similar concepts. But it's a new thing: I'm trying to see into the future here, not tell you what's already happened :) As for different DVCSs, I think you're exactly backwards. Almost everyone commenting on these things seems to believe that git isn't special, it really does the same thing as every other DVCS, etc. And on a fundamental level this is true: it's very easy to convert from one DVCS to another, because fundamentally the models are so similar. git just exposes the model in a more obvious way. The insides are the same, the outsides are different.
- eru 16y ago
  The Mercurial guys even go out of their way to show how they are like git (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/GitConcepts http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/GitConcepts).
  - levesque 16y ago
    Out of their way? What do you mean? They also have a CvsConcepts page....
    - eru 16y ago
      Bad choice of words. But--try to find a sentence like "Mercurial and Git differ only in nomenclature and interface." in the CvsConcepts page.
- Montagist 16y ago
  I thought I was with you but I was just made a little more confused by that comment :\ I've yet to do a lot with Git, but your post has made me a lot more interested. After wikipediaing the features, I'm starting to see how one could save a lot of time by building an app on top of Git rather than recreate all this functionality from scratch.
bobds 16y ago
Git core has support for CVS, SVN, Perforce, Arch and Quilt. There are plugins for Mercurial, Bazaar and DARCS. https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,_and_tools#Interaction_with_other_Revision_Control_Systems https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,... Git to Mercurial. http://hg-git.github.com/ http://hg-git.github.com/ Git to Bazaar. http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/migration/en/foreign/bzr-on-git-projects.html http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/migration/en/foreign/bzr-on-... It doesn't seem other DVCS are that incompatible.
sedachv 16y ago
http://camlistore.org/ http://camlistore.org/

apenwarr 16y ago

Many of the new "nosql" databases use a lot of similar concepts. But it's a new thing: I'm trying to see into the future here, not tell you what's already happened :) As for different DVCSs, I think you're exactly backwards. Almost everyone commenting on these things seems to believe that git isn't special, it really does the same thing as every other DVCS, etc. And on a fundamental level this is true: it's very easy to convert from one DVCS to another, because fundamentally the models are so similar. git just exposes the model in a more obvious way. The insides are the same, the outsides are different.

eru 16y ago
The Mercurial guys even go out of their way to show how they are like git (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/GitConcepts http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/GitConcepts).
- levesque 16y ago
  Out of their way? What do you mean? They also have a CvsConcepts page....
  - eru 16y ago
    Bad choice of words. But--try to find a sentence like "Mercurial and Git differ only in nomenclature and interface." in the CvsConcepts page.
Montagist 16y ago
I thought I was with you but I was just made a little more confused by that comment :\ I've yet to do a lot with Git, but your post has made me a lot more interested. After wikipediaing the features, I'm starting to see how one could save a lot of time by building an app on top of Git rather than recreate all this functionality from scratch.

bobds 16y ago

Git core has support for CVS, SVN, Perforce, Arch and Quilt. There are plugins for Mercurial, Bazaar and DARCS. https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,_and_tools#Interaction_with_other_Revision_Control_Systems https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,... Git to Mercurial. http://hg-git.github.com/ http://hg-git.github.com/ Git to Bazaar. http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/migration/en/foreign/bzr-on-git-projects.html http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/migration/en/foreign/bzr-on-... It doesn't seem other DVCS are that incompatible.

sedachv 16y ago

http://camlistore.org/ http://camlistore.org/