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Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by jnurmine on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:38PM (#21986511)
> You must be referring to just the table at the top, not to the detailed argument below

Well, not entirely, because in my opinion the detailed argument kind of hand-waves away the entire git worktree. Continuously switching branches inside a single large Git repo is certainly a suboptimal way to work with Git, but most of the time one should be able to avoid that with the worktree (though the worktree stuff is, of course, not a miracle cure for everything).

Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by wyoung2 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @07:26PM (#21986890)
You’re not addressing the list of problems resulting from the use of this tacked-on feature.

Also, Git continues to be taught with the switch-in-place method by default.

I’m not saying it is impossible to get a Fossil-like workflow with Git, just that there are consequences from that not being the default.

Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by jnurmine on Monday January 20, 2020 @01:06AM (#22096666)
Getting a "Fossil-like workflow with Git" is not really the point, is it? One could argue that Fossil does not support "Git like workflow". It is not really a good argument either way.

It is not like Fossil's workflow is a global optimum, it's just something Fossil does well.