Re: cvs better than git?

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>]

On 2020-06-21 17:20, Andreas Krey wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 15:20:39 +0000, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> ...
> > > 40. And you can abbreviate as far as they stay unambiguous.
> >
> > And it's still not anything you would want to type at all.
>
> Yes, but. There are lots of ways to reference commits, like
> 'two before the current commit on this branch', but in the
> end, if you want to reference a random commit, you have a
> random address - a hash in git, a revision number in svn,
> and, well, nothing in cvs.

What? I can't believe you are ignorant enough to not know that each file 
in cvs have a version number for each commit on it.

Or refer to a revision at a certain point in time.

> ...
> > I am still curious about how to manage well in git the scenario where
> > you do have a central repository that holds the actual source of truth,
> > and where you want to review and approve anything that gets committed.
>
> That depends on how you want to work - in git is the usual way
> that you commit your work, in reasonable steps, and then hand
> that out for review. For git itself this means posting the
> diffs of each commit to the git mailing list. (Unsurprisingly
> there are tools for that within git.)
>
> For the workflow in our company this means pushing your commits
> on a personal branch, creating a pull request, and discussing
> the changes inside that pull request and making changes until
> all reviewers are happy; then that is ready for integration.
>
> In git you usually don't review changes *before* you commit them.

See.. That is, in my book (and not only mine) a serious broken pattern. 
You do not commit before reviewing.
But ok, if that is how you work, then I guess there is not much I can 
learn from you in that area. Oh well.

> > The gains of local repositories certainly diminish in the light of that,
>
> Not really. You wouldn't want to work with any central VCS once
> you're 250ms away from the server.

I much rather do that than work according to some broken pattern.

Anyway, I feel this is not really going anywhere, so I'll stop here.

  Johnny

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