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Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, ho


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?]
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 18:31:58 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:15 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> What's more relevant is the rise of GitHub vs Launchpad as a major
>> hosting point
>
> Oh, you're right, I forgot to mention GitHub, which obviously has had a big
> influence. Though I doubt that Bazaar / Launchpad would've won the day even
> if git / GitHub weren't there.
>
>> For better or worse, the "user interface" that has won is GitHub.
>
> As a though experiment, do you think GitHub, as a "user interface",
> would be equally successful if underneath it was Bazaar?

I haven't ever used Bazaar so I'm not qualified to even deal with
hypotheticals.  From the discussion on the Emacs developer list, it has
been my impression that Bazaar's view of the repository history is to a
higher degree determined by the design underlying the actual Bazaar
tools, so a "just as GitHub" interface to Bazaar would likely feel like
a worse fit.

Again: that's pure speculation on my part, even more so than any
hypothetical is anyway.

And the amount of speculation does not actually get better by myself
never having used GitHub, either.

But I've collaborated with people who did, and their use of GitHub had
no impact on my work flows, and only marginally on theirs (as they could
not use the "Pull Request" folderol for incorporating patches of mine).

So a major point was that GitHub did not get in the way.  I'm not sure
that a "GitHub for Bazaar" would have been equally unobtrusive for
cooperating with "native" Bazaar users.

-- 
David Kastrup



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