Comments on: GIT sucks (2)

By: Git | meta/LPAR

Git | meta/LPAR — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:51:17 +0000

[...] Trying to achieve this with git led one developer to post a series of rants: git sucks part 1, part 2, part [...]

By: Jeff Dickey

Jeff Dickey — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:32:24 +0000

…must…not…feed…trolls…… ***** ARRRRRGGGGGHHH***** (brain explodes)

Any preteen-mentality (pretend-mentality?) Anonymous Coward who signs itself ‘lol’ and begins its comment ‘lol’ should automatically be ignored. I propose a patch to the Wordpress comment system, such that
– the trigraph ‘lol’, upper or lower case, in the ‘name’ area causes the message to be deleted and the originating IP to be blocked from all WP sites; and
– any comment containing two or more of said trigraph in the comment text triggers the same treatment.

By: lol

lol — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:11:12 +0000

lol, you work for canonical, you are so biased, of course you will say git sucks, your employer tells you to do so, the reality is that bzr sucks donkey balls big time, look at the emacs project, developers there are SUFFERING because of bzr suckiness…

By: martin f. krafft

martin f. krafft — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:10:47 +0000

The “reverse clone” does not work for me at all:

% git clone –bare . ssh://pulse/home/madduck/.tmp/cdt.TdhCIC/test.git
Initialized empty Git repository in ./ssh:/pulse/home/madduck/.tmp/cdt.TdhCIC/test.git/

It would be so nice to have too!

By: Simone Deponti

Simone Deponti — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:11:40 +0000

I’m not entirely sure the bzr+ is silly… after all, it indicates that it’s using the bzr protocol over an ssh connection.
Also, using branch/clone/checkout to push up a repository isn’t too much of a weird idea, but indeed should be documented and, I think, the push command should support that case aswell (pushing where nothing exists).

By: git monthly links: 2009-02 « git blog

git monthly links: 2009-02 « git blog — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:38:01 +0000

[...] Scott James Remnant » Blog Archive » GIT sucks (2) Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Mou Ikkai! « git monthly links: 2009-01 [...]

By: Anton Jenkins

Anton Jenkins — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:20:34 +0000

You mean to say you can use clone to push a repository from local on to a remote machine using ssh? I’ve been using git for a while now and I never knew that! I thought it only worked the other way around (as it is used 99% of the time I would guess). You’re quite right – this needs to be documented properly!

The way I’ve always done it, and the way I’ve seen other people do it, is to ssh into the remote server, init a bare repo and then go back to your local machine and push from there. It’s tedious but if you only have to do it once…..

As much as this whole exchange may have riled a few feathers at least we can say it’s been productive. I’d hazard a very large percentage of git advocates didn’t know you could use git clone this way and if this exercise has educated them (as it has me) as well as forced a change in documentation to help newcomers in future then everyone wins.

By: Milorad Srbin

Milorad Srbin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:11:53 +0000

Get a life

By: Caligula

Caligula — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:12:21 +0000

Wait, you’re leaving Canonical?

By: James Hofmann

James Hofmann — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:43:41 +0000

I found Git painful, but I love working with Hg. I know there isn’t really a huge difference between them, but Hg only exposes the commands I would actually use. Git’s low-level legacy makes it harder to pick up than necessary.

TortoiseHg was also a factor, since for lazy pointy-clicky people like me such frontends are a plus – Even in the current, highly unpolished state.