Re: Managing multiple branches in git

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
Cc: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Managing multiple branches in git
Date: 2009-06-03 17:11:46
Message-ID: 20090603171146.GL7172@alvh.no-ip.org
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Markus Wanner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quoting "David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>:
>> Monotone?
>
> ..one of the sources of inspiration for Linus to write git. He was not
> satisfied with its speed and he didn't like C++ and SQL. Plus the main
> contributors weren't around at the time Linus was on the mailing list.
> So he turned away and did his own thing, in C and filesystem based.
> (Most ranting stripped).

The only rant I have about the outcome is that Linus did not copy more
of it.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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