Git rocks! [LWN.net]

Git rocks!

Posted Dec 21, 2005 23:25 UTC (Wed) by astrophoenix (guest, #13528)
In reply to: Git rocks! by Junior_Samples
Parent article: Git 1.0.0 released

oh yes, I would be happy if CVS vanished off the face of the earth. I'm
forced to sync with a cvs repo right now.

my 3 favorite things about git are

1. changesets (1 commit takes in the changes to multiple files)

2. distributed development (you can hack and commit all day long on your
laptop with no network, sync up all the changesets later)

3. gitk: a simple, yet incredible visualization tool. I routinely
cvsimport code into git just so I can run gitk on it.

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Git rocks!

Posted Jan 6, 2006 17:14 UTC (Fri) by eli (guest, #11265) [Link]

my 3 favorite things about git are
1. changesets (1 commit takes in the changes to multiple files)

Also true for svn, monotone, arch, mercurial, bazaar-ng, etc. Basically, anything but CVS.

2. distributed development (you can hack and commit all day long on your laptop with no network, sync up all the changesets later)

Also true for monotone, arch, mercurial, bazaar-ng, etc.

3. gitk: a simple, yet incredible visualization tool. I routinely cvsimport code into git just so I can run gitk on it.

I hadn't seen this before... I like the look of that. (Though the visualization aspect of that could be done for any of the distributed tools since the underlying structure fits.)
git has some interesting aspects, don't get me wrong. I'm just wondering if it's really better than monotone or bazaar-ng, the two options I find more interesting.