08:08 am, 21 May 07
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."
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."
I claim that two roundtrips is indistinguishable from one for anything that claims to be an online protocol.
[FX: goes and reads the slides] Ah yes, I remember that presentation.
Switching to their terminology: note that d is almost always small -- even in my pulls from Linus, I average 83 changesets per pull (generally about 5 per week) -- so log(d) is also small. And, I don't think you actually need log(n) roundtrips if you're clever, you can reduce it to log(d) with a small amount of per-peer state.
Did he go back home to twitter his experience and show his buddies the YouTube Video?
"Check this out, I called all the Googlers idiots. BAHAHAHA!"
He makes jerktastic statements like this all the time.
I had the same feeling with mplayer. Aarpi was just an asshole.
He really was acting like an ass
I have a lot of respect for Linus' accomplishments but he really was acting like an ass. I do think a centralized code base does have its uses. At big companies such as Google where everyone wants one solid code base I'm sure a centralized model helps...