login
Header Space

 
 

Subversion developer: svn is for dumb people

Score:
Previous message: [thread] [date] [author]
Next message: [thread] [date] [author]
To: 'git' <git@...>
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 10:25 am

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
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Previous message: [thread] [date] [author]
Next message: [thread] [date] [author]

Messages in current thread:
Subversion developer: svn is for dumb people, Steven Grimm, (Thu Oct 18, 10:25 am)
Re: Subversion developer: svn is for dumb people, Pierre Habouzit, (Fri Oct 19, 7:34 am)
Re: Subversion developer: svn is for dumb people, Johannes Schindelin, (Fri Oct 19, 9:17 am)
Re: Subversion developer: svn is for dumb people, Pierre Habouzit, (Fri Oct 19, 9:19 am)
Re: Subversion developer: svn is for dumb people, Sam Vilain, (Thu Oct 18, 6:40 pm)
Re: Subversion developer: svn is for dumb people, Jeff King, (Thu Oct 18, 2:33 pm)
Re: Subversion developer: svn is for dumb people, David Brown, (Thu Oct 18, 12:57 pm)
speck-geostationary