From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FNS00-0004NQ-6E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:57:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2Q9v2LB000346; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:57:02 GMT Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2Q9t2SN016102 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:55:02 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C28518D353; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:54:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03743-01; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:54:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from posidon.ferdyx.org (posidon.ferdyx.org [192.168.0.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0908D342; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:54:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by posidon.ferdyx.org (nbSMTP-1.01-cvs) for uid 1000 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) ferdy@gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:54:56 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:54:56 +0200 From: "Fernando J. Pereda" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Ryan Phillips , stuart.herbert@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal? Message-ID: <20060326095456.GA9162@ferdyx.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Ryan Phillips , stuart.herbert@gmail.com References: <20060324193534.GA24818@dst.grantgoodyear.org> <200603241506.54915.dostrow@gentoo.org> <20060325064751.GA8104@trolocsis.dyndns.org> <20060325230048.GA2691@olive.flatmonk> <20060325231852.GA10494@ferdyx.org> <20060326005743.GD2691@olive.flatmonk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060326005743.GD2691@olive.flatmonk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: f080470e-b6ba-4ec3-9780-a607cbeed490 X-Archives-Hash: e830506b0d20598d5198b15685a0e253 --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 07:57:43PM -0500, Aron Griffis wrote: > Fernando J. Pereda wrote: [Sat Mar 25 2006, 06:18:52PM EST] > > Well, I find it easier to understand than many other DVCSs out there... > > In fact I don't think it is difficult to use in any way. Maybe pre-1.1 > > versions had some syntax weirdnesses, but the 1.2 series are really easy > > to use and understand... >=20 > That is good to hear. It's possible that my comments were misplaced, > and it would be worth my while to reinvestigate git. Personally I use > mercurial daily (xen) and I've been very happy with it. >=20 > I'm under the impression that mercurial is easier to use than git, > mostly because of git's philosophy of providing the low-level > infrastructure and expecting other projects to build user-friendly > interfaces. While that split sounds good in theory, it seems to > result in one interface that's powerful+complex, and other interfaces > that are weak+easy. Again, that's an impression, not recent personal > experience. Definately that was the case some months ago. Now Git provides a 'porcelain' (user oriented) interface, and using the 'plumbing' (core) tools directly is highly discouraged. Also Cogito has improved a lot since then. > > > *shrug* All possible with the other DVCSs, generally easier to > > > use, and harder to screw up your repo. > >=20 > > How would you screw your repo using normal Git commands ? >=20 > I shouldn't have made that statement since I haven't done it > personally, only heard of it happening to other people, and not > recently. Again, might be the case with ancient versions, I screwed some of my repos :) But definately not with post-1.0 versions. Basically, I think you tried/heard about, ancient versions of Git and Cogito, and yeah... the very first versions were a PITA sometimes. Cheers, Ferdy --=20 Fernando J. Pereda Garcimart=EDn Gentoo Developer (Alpha,net-mail,mutt,git) 20BB BDC3 761A 4781 E6ED ED0B 0A48 5B0C 60BD 28D4 --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEJmTwCkhbDGC9KNQRAkORAJ9dMi1XoYoPtFh7nOUPI6kjC0/nrQCgjxie k1px5D16axWfUyXjwtFy1w0= =RVQs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list