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It's easy nowadays because it's popularity forced everyone to build integration. Git is a absolute nightmare to integrate with CI tools though if you actually h

It's easy nowadays because it's popularity forced everyone to build integration. Git is a absolute nightmare to integrate with CI tools though if you actually have to develop the integration yourself. Git has no native way to reliably tell you what you actually worked on in a branch. Yes it has git diff but that is not precisely the same, and git log is A. not easy to consume B. unreliable since git has so many methods to rewrite history. If you're using something like GitHub it's obviously much easier to use their API but even that is quirky sometimes.

StevePerkins 4y ago
That's my point. Most shops do NOT want to develop their on CI pipeline systems from scratch. I don't care if Fossil makes that theoretically easier, I don't want to do that at all. I want to use a Gitlab CI, or a Circle CI, or hell even a Jenkins. Git has that available ecosystem. No other serious competitor does. Theoretically, it might be easier to weave your own cloth and then tailor pants from scratch, if you use some novel synthetic fiber rather than cotton. But I don't want to weave my own cloth and tailor my own pants, so I wear cotton blue jeans.
thayne 4y ago
> Git has no native way to reliably tell you what you actually worked on in a branch. Yes it has git diff but that is not precisely the same I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "what you actually worked on". If you want the files that changed a git diff between the tip of your branch and merge base of the target branch is usually sufficient. > and git log is A. not easy to consume You can customize the log format to make it easier to consume > B. unreliable since git has so many methods to rewrite history. I'm not sure what that has to do with CI/CD. But if that is somehow a problem for you, then just don't allow rewriting history. Every git server software I'm aware of supports rejecting pushes that rewrite history.

StevePerkins 4y ago

That's my point. Most shops do NOT want to develop their on CI pipeline systems from scratch. I don't care if Fossil makes that theoretically easier, I don't want to do that at all. I want to use a Gitlab CI, or a Circle CI, or hell even a Jenkins. Git has that available ecosystem. No other serious competitor does. Theoretically, it might be easier to weave your own cloth and then tailor pants from scratch, if you use some novel synthetic fiber rather than cotton. But I don't want to weave my own cloth and tailor my own pants, so I wear cotton blue jeans.

thayne 4y ago

> Git has no native way to reliably tell you what you actually worked on in a branch. Yes it has git diff but that is not precisely the same I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "what you actually worked on". If you want the files that changed a git diff between the tip of your branch and merge base of the target branch is usually sufficient. > and git log is A. not easy to consume You can customize the log format to make it easier to consume > B. unreliable since git has so many methods to rewrite history. I'm not sure what that has to do with CI/CD. But if that is somehow a problem for you, then just don't allow rewriting history. Every git server software I'm aware of supports rejecting pushes that rewrite history.