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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@...>
Cc: Craig L. Ching <cching@...>, <sverre@...>, Git Mailinglist <git@...>
Subject: Re: Git vs Monotone
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 4:30 pm

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:


Ehh, apparently. I had thought it was a feature (not that it was me who 
implemented it), and didn't realize that others thought it was a bug. 
Oops.

The default *.keep file was _wonderful_ for cloning a large tree onto a 
small machine. It did exactly the right thing (never mind any shared 
repositories - it just made repacking much more reasonable).

So maybe it was unintentional (a "bug"), but I had always seen it as being 
something good.

			Linus
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Git vs Monotone, Sverre Rabbelier, (Thu Jul 31, 2:13 pm)
Re: Git vs Monotone, Sverre Rabbelier, (Fri Aug 1, 3:23 am)
Re: Git vs Monotone, Daniel Barkalow, (Fri Aug 1, 2:00 pm)
Re: Git vs Monotone, Theodore Tso, (Thu Jul 31, 3:24 pm)
Re: Git vs Monotone, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Jul 31, 3:17 pm)
Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git vs ..., Craig L. Ching, (Thu Jul 31, 3:48 pm)
Re: Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git..., Sean Estabrooks, (Thu Jul 31, 4:57 pm)
Re: Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git..., Theodore Tso, (Thu Jul 31, 5:22 pm)
Re: Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git..., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Jul 31, 4:09 pm)
Re: Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git..., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Jul 31, 5:40 pm)
Re: Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git..., Dmitry Torokhov, (Thu Jul 31, 10:50 pm)
Re: Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git..., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Jul 31, 11:02 pm)
Re: Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git..., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Jul 31, 11:59 pm)
Re: Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git..., Björn, (Thu Jul 31, 4:54 pm)
Re: Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git..., Martin Langhoff, (Thu Jul 31, 5:43 pm)
Re: Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git..., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Jul 31, 5:13 pm)
Re: Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git..., Avery Pennarun, (Thu Jul 31, 5:10 pm)
RE: Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git..., Craig L. Ching, (Thu Jul 31, 4:37 pm)
Re: Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git..., Shawn O. Pearce, (Thu Jul 31, 4:18 pm)
RE: Git vs Monotone, Craig L. Ching, (Thu Jul 31, 3:28 pm)
RE: Git vs Monotone, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Jul 31, 3:52 pm)
RE: Git vs Monotone, Blum, Robert, (Thu Jul 31, 4:42 pm)
Re: Git vs Monotone, Robin Rosenberg, (Sun Aug 10, 6:15 pm)
Re: Git vs Monotone, Junio C Hamano, (Thu Jul 31, 4:24 pm)
Re: Git vs Monotone, Felipe Contreras, (Sat Aug 23, 3:23 pm)
Re: Git vs Monotone, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Jul 31, 4:30 pm)
Re: Git vs Monotone, Jeff King, (Thu Jul 31, 3:02 pm)
Re: Git vs Monotone, Sverre Rabbelier, (Thu Jul 31, 3:19 pm)
Re: Git vs Monotone, Jeff King, (Thu Jul 31, 4:32 pm)
RE: Git vs Monotone, Craig L. Ching, (Thu Jul 31, 3:11 pm)
Re: Git vs Monotone, Stephen R. van den Berg, (Thu Jul 31, 2:33 pm)
Re: Git vs Monotone, Petr Baudis, (Thu Jul 31, 2:52 pm)