Re: gub progress

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Pedro Kröger wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > although you are free to call me an idiot.
> 
> no need to do that :-)

;-)

> > - The repository format itself is fragile, just as cvs'. It is based on 
> > patches, so if there is one single patch corrupt, you loose the history 
> > from then on.
> 
> hum, I haven't tought of that.

I actually had a fsck-up, because I accidentally issued a "rm -rf ." in 
one of my private projects. I was not really fast enough with Ctrl-C, 
but git could still access most of the revisions.

> > - git makes it _really_ easy to access older version without checking them 
> > out. For example, I can get the differences in lily/music.cc between 
> > version 1.3.108 and 2.9.7 with "git diff lilypond_1_3_108:lily/music.cc  
> > lilypond_2_9_7:lily/music.cc".
> 
> this is something that's a little bit annoing about darcs.
> 
> Thanks for your email. I think I'll give git a try.

Please do. And if you run into problems, do not hesitate to ask me, or the 
list. There are even some people on irc...

Ciao,
Dscho