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John Wiegley |
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Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?] |
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Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:08:51 -0700 |
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>>>>> Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
> I've been wondering about git's popularity for some long time. That git's
> complexity is not necessary in a powerful VCS is demonstrated by the
> counterexamples of hg and (to a lesser extent) bzr.
One thing to keep in mind is that Git has several distinct layers:
- The data model
- The plumbing
- The porcelain
The data model is *incredibly* simple. This, I think, is Git's main
attraction. I've written about the data model in my article "Git from the
Bottom Up", and also via a Haskell library for interacting with this model,
called gitlib (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gitlib).
The plumbing is... unintuitive to say the least. The porcelain is... fairly
bad, but slowly getting better.
The thing is, you can throw away the plumbing *and* the porcelain, and still
have access to your data. There is the C library libgit2 you can use,
completely independent from the git CLI tool. And it's *fast* for doing
large-scale manipulation (gitlib is able to optionally make use of it).
For engineers who like to dig into things, Git looks beautiful; for users who
want to use things, it often looks terrible.
John
- Re: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?, (continued)
- Re: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/10/28
- Re: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/10/28
- Re: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?, Michael Heerdegen, 2015/10/28
- Re: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?, Michael Heerdegen, 2015/10/28
- Re: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?, Yuri Khan, 2015/10/28
- Re: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?, David Kastrup, 2015/10/29
- Re: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/10/29
- Re: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?, David Kastrup, 2015/10/29
- On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Alan Mackenzie, 2015/10/29
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], David Kastrup, 2015/10/29
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?],
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- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Paul Eggert, 2015/10/30
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Alan Mackenzie, 2015/10/30
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], David Kastrup, 2015/10/30
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/30
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Paul Eggert, 2015/10/30
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], joakim, 2015/10/30
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Yuri Khan, 2015/10/30
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/10/30
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/31
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Andreas Schwab, 2015/10/31