From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter•com>
To: 'git' <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Subversion developer: svn is for dumb people
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:25:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47176CE0.7030609@midwinter.com> (raw)
Thought folks here might get a kick out of this:
http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=79
Okay, my summary is slightly facetious, but that's basically the gist of
what he's saying: you should choose Subversion rather than a DVCS
because most of your users won't be smart enough to use the better tool.
I can't say he's completely wrong, especially about the 20/80% idea
(though I think "20%" is generous), but some of his specific arguments
about DVCS are on the bogus side. "Centralized systems encourage code
reviews," for one -- I challenge him to find a project with a more
pervasive and effective code-reviewing culture than the git project. I
find code reviews *harder* in a centralized system because you end up
building external tools to help people try out each other's changes.
-Steve
next reply other threads:[~2007-10-18 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-18 14:25 Steven Grimm [this message]
2007-10-18 16:57 ` Subversion developer: svn is for dumb people David Brown
2007-10-18 18:33 ` Jeff King
2007-10-18 22:40 ` Sam Vilain
2007-10-19 11:34 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-19 13:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-19 13:19 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-19 12:10 ` Andy Parkins
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