Confusing Git Terminology

Re:Confusing Git Terminology by scottlamb on Thursday November 02, 2023 @04:48PM (#38119941)

> Maybe its because I'm old enough to remember when subversion was king.

Heh. I'm old enough to remember when CVS was king. Subversion was a huge improvement. Git was too. I have every reason to believe further huge improvements are possible. They might have to be gargantuan though to overcome inertia by now.

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Re:Confusing Git Terminology by Ygg2 on Thursday November 02, 2023 @10:08PM (#38123506)

Just look at what sucks in Git.

Large file handling and submodule/subtree.

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Re:Confusing Git Terminology by funcDropShadow on Friday November 03, 2023 @05:29AM (#38126341)

submodule and subtree are difficult concepts that look easy at a first glance. That is not the fault of the implementation.

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Re:Confusing Git Terminology by Ygg2 on Friday November 03, 2023 @07:01AM (#38126919)

For record that's something SVN had. It's difficult in distributed setting.

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Re:Confusing Git Terminology by NikkiA on Friday November 03, 2023 @01:37AM (#38124952)

And CVS was a huge step up from RCS and SCCS synced via sneakernet, well, it seemed huge at the time, now it seems like a tiny step compared to everything that came after.

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