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 1FNbvc-0004wR-UU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:33:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2QKWT4Y025572; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:32:29 GMT Received: from aria.kroah.org (dsl093-040-174.pdx1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.40.174]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2QKSvqB004723 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:28:58 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.13] (helo=localhost) by aria.kroah.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.54) id 1FNbr2-0004LI-Fd; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:28:52 -0800 Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:28:37 -0800 From: Greg KH To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Ryan Phillips , stuart.herbert@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal? Message-ID: <20060326202837.GA9934@kroah.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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060326005743.GD2691@olive.flatmonk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 62b5c43f-fb35-47bc-a1d0-8084b94ab4c6 X-Archives-Hash: 228bf038e8c02e82caa4f028ce30e672 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list