Git is the next Unix

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Post by oxyona » Sat, Feb 02, 2008, 2:37 AM UTC

Re: Git is the next Unix

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Post by bootload » Sat, Feb 02, 2008, 5:12 AM UTC

"... Numerous people have written diff and merge systems for wikis; TWiki even uses RCS. If they used git instead, the repository would be tiny, and you could make a personal copy of the entire wiki to take on the plane with you, then sync your changes back when you're done. ..."

Now that is a compelling idea. How portable is git? ~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)

Re: Git is the next Unix

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Post by ecuzzillo » Sat, Feb 02, 2008, 5:35 AM UTC

It's also the next Unix in that it's kind of hard to use for newbies, and shits all over your data when you do something that seems like a routine action (git revert anyone?), but in fact will tell it to self-destruct. svn is emphatically not this way, which, when you aren't doing anything distributedly and don't have very many branches, is happy.

Re: Git is the next Unix

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Post by bayareaguy » Sat, Feb 02, 2008, 5:48 AM UTC

Git is good at what it was designed to do (manage and distribute changes to source code) but that's not what most people need. Non-programmers are a lot better off with simpler things like OSX Time Machine and iDisk.

That said there seems to be a lot of effort duplicated at the file-system level and at the version-control level. I hope file systems of the future will expose nicer api's (e.g. change logging) to help version-control systems become simpler and more efficient.

Re: Git is the next Unix

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Post by jey » Sat, Feb 02, 2008, 5:56 AM UTC

bootload wrote: post #2

"... Numerous people have written diff and merge systems for wikis; TWiki even uses RCS. If they used git instead, the repository would be tiny, and you could make a personal copy of the entire wiki to take on the plane with you, then sync your changes back when you're done. ..." Now that is a compelling idea. How portable is git? ~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)

My friend looked into porting git to Win32 natively and abandoned the effort because Git uses a ton of UNIX-isms, from fork() to sh scripts.

Re: Git is the next Unix

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Post by Hexstream » Sat, Feb 02, 2008, 6:12 AM UTC

jey wrote: post #5

bootload wrote: post #2

"... Numerous people have written diff and merge systems for wikis; TWiki even uses RCS. If they used git instead, the repository would be tiny, and you could make a personal copy of the entire wiki to take on the plane with you, then sync your changes back when you're done. ..." Now that is a compelling idea. How portable is git? ~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)

My friend looked into porting git to Win32 natively and abandoned the effort because Git uses a ton of UNIX-isms, from fork() to sh scripts.

Not really surprising, given the author...

Re: Git is the next Unix

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Post by ph0rque » Sat, Feb 02, 2008, 7:13 AM UTC

If this is true, then webapps should use git instead of databases.

Re: Git is the next Unix

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Post by robmnl » Sat, Feb 02, 2008, 7:16 AM UTC

ph0rque wrote: post #7

If this is true, then webapps should use git instead of databases.

For sure in some cases - yet I don't see any metadata and query capabilities. Are there?

Re: Git is the next Unix

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Post by davidw » Sat, Feb 02, 2008, 9:00 AM UTC

"git is so powerful, that when you put light in it, it can't escape"

Re: Git is the next Unix

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Post by anotherjesse » Sat, Feb 02, 2008, 9:29 AM UTC

bootload wrote: post #2

"... Numerous people have written diff and merge systems for wikis; TWiki even uses RCS. If they used git instead, the repository would be tiny, and you could make a personal copy of the entire wiki to take on the plane with you, then sync your changes back when you're done. ..." Now that is a compelling idea. How portable is git? ~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)

check out ikiwiki - http://ikiwiki.info/ - it backends to both git (and svn) to do this - git allows offline work.