Re:Employee #1: Dropbox
by bch on Monday September 19, 2016 @02:09PM
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I wonder how large that friction is. I look at git, mercurial, etc as distributed version control first and foremost, and that they're more alike than different.
It could be that I witnessed the popular adoption of all this via Linux going from tarballs/patches/mailing lists -> bitkeeper -> git, and have used and witnessed-the-evolution-of rcs, cvs, subversion, various DSCMs, and so my concepts of source control are stretched more broadly than people that are experiencing the dissonance between (e.g.) mercurial and git.
Re:Employee #1: Dropbox
by Bjartr on Monday September 19, 2016 @04:58PM
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Do you have anything you can point to for that friction? I'm always looking to do better than I already am and would be interested in understanding the issues here.
It could be that I witnessed the popular adoption of all this via Linux going from tarballs/patches/mailing lists -> bitkeeper -> git, and have used and witnessed-the-evolution-of rcs, cvs, subversion, various DSCMs, and so my concepts of source control are stretched more broadly than people that are experiencing the dissonance between (e.g.) mercurial and git.
Edit: clarifying words