Evan Martin (evan) wrote in evan_tech,
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linus on git

Linus Torvalds gave a talk at Google on git. I could only bear to watch about half of it. I have/had a lot of respect for Linus based on his emails but this was a bit over the top; much of the talk was "[x] is a stupid idea, you must have [y]" without anything to support it. I can imagine a sort of humble arrogance as sorta endearing but it only hurts your cause to be openly obnoxious. I may disagree with the SVN model but saying stuff like "the developers are probably in this audience and you should know they're stupid" is just lame.

I have a rule of avoiding software maintained by jerks (which is why I abandoned arch, though in retrospect I think it's also technically lacking) though I'm not sure if git counts since it has new maintainers now.

Update: node points out that "He makes jerktastic statements like this all the time."
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  • your vcs sucks

    I've been hacking on some Haskell stuff lately that's all managed in darcs and it's reminded me of an observation I made over two years ago now (see…

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    Here's a quick tutorial on using git grafts to fill in implied svn merge history. Say you're using git-svn to track a project, which has a trunk…

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