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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On May 09, David Kowis [dkowis AT shlrm.org] wrote:
> Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> <snip>
> > I also have to mention: alley_cat reported what looked like a git bug
> > yesterday regarding an operation taking too long to run, and it got fixed
> > for us today.  Oh, and the guy that downloaded our grimoire tree and
> > found/fixed the bug for us minutes after hearing of the issue was one 
> > Linus
> > Torvalds.  :-)
> > 
> 
> Now if that's not a good reason to use git, I don't know what is ;)

I guess the objective important thing to me there is the support we're
getting.  #git is a very friendly channel.  We have been asking a lot of
questions in there, and they're giving us the pointers we need.  One of
them has even been camping #sourcemage for a while now and answering
questions there too, and has gone off and written a p4 importer that
auto-tags git with every p4 changeset (so you can checkout the git repo to
match any changeset).  Having a bug fixed that fast (and by a demigod no
less) is just icing.  They're actually at a period right now where they're
seeing a fair bit more use beyond the original plans for the kernel and
they are very interested in hearing how it works out for other workflows,
especially people using a centralized model, and making it work even
better.  Linus in particular is pushing for feedback so they can improve
the tutorial-type docs for each normal use case.

Compare this to #svn who apparently didn't want to believe e-type when he
went in there to ask about the disk space requirements.  ;-P  I'll probably
try them later today on the same question, but it looks like it's simple
block size math for the number of .svn dirs/files they need...

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