Git in layman's terms: isomorphic contours in source-code phase space

Re:Git in layman's terms: isomorphic contours in source-code... by alextp on Thursday December 16, 2010 @12:36PM (#2012848)

Is it wrong that I'm disappointed because this doesn't seem to make much sense? The actual topology involved has to be discrete, not continuous, as can never continuously deform from one branch to another.

Also, a tree of trees is still a tree. Git repositories form DAGs of trees, and this is not really that hard to visualize.

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Re:Git in layman's terms: isomorphic contours in source-code... by tel on Thursday December 16, 2010 @01:26PM (#2013041)

I too was really disappointed that this is nonsense instead of just very useless but correct. It downgrades it from smart and clever joking to "guy with a technical dictionary" joking.

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Re:Git in layman's terms: isomorphic contours in source-code... by raganwald on Thursday December 16, 2010 @02:35PM (#2013275)

Nevertheless, for the audience that have no technical understanding of technology, it's equally funny either way. Which is no doubt why it's possible to build a Visual Basic UI for forensic analysis in a few hours.

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