Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

[Greg KH <gregkh@gentoo.org>]

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...
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.

Yeah, that's a lot of people's "impression" that haven't use git before,
and we need to get Linus to stop downplaying it all of the time.  But if
you've used it, you will quickly see how powerful and sane git is.  I
don't know of anyone who has used it that doesn't just absolutly love
it.

And it's come a long way recently and is much nicer and no extra
"user-friendly" helper tools are needed at all.  Don't be put off by the
70+ different git commands, just go through the tutorial and try it out
for yourself.

In short, I can't recommend git enough, it works wonderful for doing
things like storing my mbox archive, kernel development, shared
repository development of other projects with multiple developers, and
even handling system configuration files.

thanks,

greg k-h
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