My initial thought on reading this (other than that making jokes about killing people is fairly crass), is that SVN and CVS pre-date git by 5 and 15 years respectively. When CVS and later SVN came out they were both great advances in revision control, as was git when it arrived on the scene. <div>
<br><div>While I am an avid git fan, I still use subversion on one particular project where one of the developers is entirely windows based and doesn't want to install the entire cygwin stack just to check out some sourcecode. Given the windows paradigm that everything should be achievable via a GUI, subversion has been fully integrated natively with Explorer for a long time now (tortoiseSVN), something git (afaik) still cannot do*. Would I be happy to see the end of subversion? sure, when git is as usable for my friend on windows as it is for me on Linux.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think it's a bit rich given the above, for the -author- of git to have a go at archaic RCSs on usability when in some instances (cross platform-edness) they are still arguably more usable. </div>
<div><br></div><div>* I have not checked again recently.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:51 PM, David Lloyd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lloy0076@adam.com.au">lloy0076@adam.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:24px;font-family:sans-serif"><h2 style="color:black;background-color:initial;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.6em;margin-left:0px;overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:hidden;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0.17em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(170, 170, 170);width:auto;font-size:24px;background-repeat:initial initial">
<span>git</span></h2><pre style="font-family:monospace, 'Courier New';padding-top:1em;padding-right:1em;padding-bottom:1em;padding-left:1em;border-top-width:1px;border-right-width:1px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-left-width:1px;border-top-style:dashed;border-right-style:dashed;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-left-style:dashed;border-top-color:rgb(47, 111, 171);border-right-color:rgb(47, 111, 171);border-bottom-color:rgb(47, 111, 171);border-left-color:rgb(47, 111, 171);color:black;background-color:rgb(249, 249, 249);line-height:1.1em">
We will hereby start scouring the net for people who say git is hard to
understand and use, and just kill them. They clearly are just polluting
the gene pool.</pre></span><div><a href="http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg01343.html" target="_blank">http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg01343.html</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>It seems Linus makes funny assertions about people who cannot use git.</div>
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