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Does he seriously not get the whole point of DVCS?

• jordigh 12y ago
  He says he has no need for it. But then again, he has a point: why should he need this? He manages to get his work fine without it. Indeed, most people find a DVCS more complicated to understand than a CVCS. There's an inherent complexity with concurrency that a centralised, linearised VCS does not exhibit.
  • danudey 12y ago
    I moved our entire company from SVN to Git with no support issues to speak of. None of our developers had an issue with it at all, and no one lost any work just because they fundamentally misunderstood how Git worked. In the end, it sounds like Stallman needed to read any basic 'how to git' document on any blog anywhere and it would have explained to him what he needed to know to not lose his data, and maybe 'why to git' to figure out the benefits of 'commit' vs. 'atomic commit and push'.
• danudey 12y ago
  This honestly sounds like a manager saying 'from now on I want everyone to log when they arrive to work into this Excel file shared from my laptop so that I can look at it and see how we're doing attendance-wise', completely disregarding whether that approach is feasible or worthwhile, if there's a better solution, or if it's just going to confuse and frustrate everyone. I never thought I would compare RMS to the clueless manager stereotype, but this 'I don't understand it so it's obviously a problem' attitude is just… ignorant.