Archive for February 17, 2009

GIT sucks (3)

Unfortunately I have to make a correction to my previous post.
In that post, I suggested that the following git command would work:

quest util-linux% git clone –bare . ssh://kernel.ubuntu.com/srv/kernel.ubuntu.com/git/scott/util-linux.git

I wholeheartedly apologise.  It turns out that what this command does is make the following local directory: $(pwd)/ssh:/kernel.ubuntu.com/srv/kernel.ubuntu.com/git/scott/util-linux.git.
Unfortunately this means that normal service of hating git, while still [...]

GIT sucks (2)

Jason Clinton replied to my virtiolic rant about GIT with a well researched and thought out reply.  Sorry, that’s not what I mean.  He replied to my rant against a piece of technology with a personal attack.
I feel that there’s a few points that I need to reply to.
Romeo Tango Foxtrot Mike
I did, in fact, [...]

GIT sucks

I do not like git.
Let’s take the most mind-numbingly trivial of operations, I want to put a branch I have somewhere so somebody else can get it.  That’s the whole point of distributed revision-control, collaboration.
That’s too fundamental to be covered in the git tutorial, after all, it wouldn’t be fun if it were that easy.
Happily, [...]