Am I the only one who's actively suspicious about this kind of thing? With Git, I can use whatever wiki, ticketing, documentation, and blog features I want. I don't want my VCS to be a Lotus Notes for software development.
Fossil Versus Git
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Re: Fossil Versus Git
#12"Git provides file versioning services only, whereas Fossil adds an integrated wiki, ticketing & bug tracking, embedded documentation, and News/Blog features. These additional capabilities are available for Git as 3rd-party user-installed add-ons, but with Fossil they are integrated into the design." Am I the only one who's actively suspicious about this kind of thing? With Git, I can use whatever wiki, ticketing, do…
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#13Look, new projects should have these pages, and they SHOULD be passionate and biased. However, shit like this makes me stop reading: "Git has a huge user community. If following the herd and being like everybody else is important to you, then you should choose Git."
The poem isn't actually in praise of making unusual choices — it's about rationalizing the choices we make so that they seem more intelligent and important than they actually were. In the text of the poem, the narrator goes to great lengths to make it clear that he can't tell any difference between the paths in front of him. So he decides to choose one arbitrarily, and tells us that years from now, he'll tell people that he took this little-traveled road and that set the course of his life.
Re: Fossil Versus Git
#14Does anyone know whether fossil has a staging area? I tried but could not find it. Google didn't really help either.
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#15Look, new projects should have these pages, and they SHOULD be passionate and biased. However, shit like this makes me stop reading: "Git has a huge user community. If following the herd and being like everybody else is important to you, then you should choose Git."
Oh no, not another SCM. My head is already bursting from learning Hg and Git... Also I don't think "lack of rebase" is a feature. If you don't want it in git, just forbid using it for your project. However, if you want to maintain a patch-set outside of a project it's the best thing since sliced bread.
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#16The fact that fossil has "Versioning, Tickets, Wiki, and Blog/News", really puts me off this, actually. I'm not massive into the unix philsophy, but this seems like bloated: they should be separate things, even if they're interconnected imo.
I've stayed away from fossil as an SCM because it doesn't have the traction that others do (I personally prefer mercurial), but I have used it a few times where I needed a wiki and bug tracker, setup is about as simple as you can get.
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#17Instead, explore the other documentation on the site and see whether it's an SCM for you.
Zed Shaw wrote a perfectly reasonable post about why he uses it:
http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1276624594.html
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1433387
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#18Look, new projects should have these pages, and they SHOULD be passionate and biased. However, shit like this makes me stop reading: "Git has a huge user community. If following the herd and being like everybody else is important to you, then you should choose Git."
It also backs this point up with yet another abuse of the most misquoted poem ever, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." The poem isn't actually in praise of making unusual choices — it's about rationalizing the choices we make so that they seem more intelligent and important than they actually were. In the text of the poem, the narrator goes to great lengths to make it clear that he can't tell any difference between…
My reading of the last stanza differs from yours: he's not saying that he'll tell people, falsely, that it set the course of his life; he's saying that although he couldn't see any good reason for choosing one over the other, as his life goes on it'll turn out that it made a big difference.
The thing that intrigues me about this poem (which, actually, I don't much care for despite its fame) is the title. "The road not taken". That's not the perhaps-less-worn path he did take, it's the other one. Without that title, if you asked me which path was more the subject of the poem I'd have said without hesitation: the one he took, which "has made all the difference". But no: the spotlight is on that sigh with which Frost will be telling the story, the regret (if that's the right word) that he couldn't try them both. I think.
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#19Look, new projects should have these pages, and they SHOULD be passionate and biased. However, shit like this makes me stop reading: "Git has a huge user community. If following the herd and being like everybody else is important to you, then you should choose Git."
I logged in to make the same comment. If you want someone to use your product, the best way to do that isn't to call them sheep
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It also backs this point up with yet another abuse of the most misquoted poem ever, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." The poem isn't actually in praise of making unusual choices — it's about rationalizing the choices we make so that they seem more intelligent and important than they actually were. In the text of the poem, the narrator goes to great lengths to make it clear that he can't tell any difference between…
He kinda contradicts himself. "Then took the other, as just as fair, / And having perhaps the better claim, / Because it was grassy and wanted wear;" seems to imply that the one he took was indeed "less traveled"; but then, immediately, "Though as for that the passing there / Had worn them really about the same,". It doesn't seem to me that there's any Right Answer to the question: Are we supposed to understand that…
I agree with you on the title though. It puts a really nice spin on the poem.