Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

anylo · Post by **anylo** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:19 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

Geek talking to other geeks about Git.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:48 am

short summing up: svn sucks - git rocks ;-)

anylo · Post by **anylo** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:40 am

CuteAlien wrote:short summing up: svn sucks - git rocks

... in perspective of kernel development. Anyway, his approach is excellent "CVS/SVN/<name your favorite SCM here> seems to suck so I'll write my own".

Distributed is the key word.

GameDude · Post by **GameDude** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:28 am

This is 70 minutes long!

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:47 am

GameDude wrote:This is 70 minutes long!

Yeah, that's why I made this accurate summary :-)

lester · Post by **lester** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:51 pm

short summing up: svn sucks - git rocks

lol I've made the same conclusion not watching the movie

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:07 pm

I've not tried git so far, so I can't tell about that. But Linus hit a note when he said that svn is even worse than using patch.

I've to work with my own irrlicht version and do have to update regularly the stuff in it which is changed in the official irrlicht version. And using svn is worse than using patch for something like that. svn is better than nothing, but you're losing the correlation between several changes which belong together. With patches you have that.

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:35 am

I like how Linus publicly demeans everyone around him.

Spintz · Post by **Spintz** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:35 pm

I think Linus should be doomed to hell now, for bringing us his first nitemare....Linux. I believe he is the anti-christ.

anylo · Post by **anylo** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:45 am

monkeycracks wrote:I like how Linus publicly demeans everyone around him.

No he doesn't. He just calls them stupid because they disagree with him. People (usually from USA) doesn't get his sarcasm (wich is kinda poor, but I know it's sarcasm because I know how geek from Finland thinks). So Linus is often categorized as "arrogant bastard" because of that and the other finnish quality which is way how we say what we think.

If I think that your piece of code is poop, I probably say "Your code is piece of poop" instead of "Your code is not perfect". It's nothing personal, it's just the way how I would describe horribly written code. Somehow this upsets some developers. Idols judge Simon Cowell probably have some finnish relatives?

And no need to say my written english is POS, I know that already.

EDIT:
This forum software is poop. It changed my S-word into poop.

anylo · Post by **anylo** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:01 am

monkeycracks wrote:I like how Linus publicly demeans everyone around him.

Then you'll like this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/17/303

Topic itself is related into Tivoization.