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Re: Use OS X you git

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Post by danudey » Wed, Nov 24, 2010, 12:11 AM UTC

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dotBen wrote: post #3

tl;dr An interesting post that began well with a reasonable (but arguable) observation around Rails development orientated in closed source products but then got derailed in why OS X sucks. (esp, by the sounds of it, if you are German/Austrian like the author and using a German keyboard - which made the references to DHH being Der Führer slightly uncomfortable.)

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The author raises a bunch of ridiculous points though, like complaining that TextMate isn't Vim, complaining that he confuses keyboard shortcuts, and complaining that OS X is like Windows and Linux in some respects, but not identical.

Re: Use OS X you git

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 24, 2010, 12:12 AM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #8

dotBen wrote: post #3

tl;dr An interesting post that began well with a reasonable (but arguable) observation around Rails development orientated in closed source products but then got derailed in why OS X sucks. (esp, by the sounds of it, if you are German/Austrian like the author and using a German keyboard - which made the references to DHH being Der Führer slightly uncomfortable.)

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Re: Use OS X you git

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Post by m0nastic » Wed, Nov 24, 2010, 12:12 AM UTC

From the author's tone in the post, I expected the linked Rails blog entry to be much different.

Rails is moving source control to GIT. They published a blog entry about it. Some of the comments remarked that using GIT in Windows is sub-optimal. DHH replied that it works better using Cygwin, and that a more native implementation would be forthcoming. He also says that the decision is primarily geared towards making the Rails developers lives easier (as end user's shouldn't need to be using the source tree).

The author writes a blog post that meanders between bitching about OS X, about Rails, and then concludes with a placating statement that all OS's suck.

Oh, and it's from 2008.

Re: Use OS X you git

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Post by nikster » Wed, Nov 24, 2010, 12:14 AM UTC

danudey wrote: post #9

Perhaps it's because the article is two years old, but the whole thing just seems ridiculous. It really feels like the points he's making here has to do more with what he's used to and his expectations, rather than actual value or solid issues. His complaints seem to amount to 'OS X sucks, it's not Windows OR Linux!', 'TextMate sucks, it's not Vim at all!', 'Keyboard shortcuts are different and I get confused', and '…

Thanks for the summary.

I tuned out right in the beginning when the author claimed that OS Xs file system is "broken for use with git". I followed the reference and it turns out that git breaks when you upgrade to OS X 10.3. Which was released in 2003. So, seven years ago when people were upgrading to the then-new 10.3, git broke. Except it wasn't even around.