Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

Linus Torvalds visits Google to share his thoughts on git, the source control management system he created two years ago.

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[Nyarlathotep9]

Just a hunch.... I'm really not sure, and please, correct me if my impression is incorrect....

...but I'm getting the impression that Linus doesn't like CVS very much.

[peaceDOThuxDOTde]

i am watching this talk over and over again lol. I would hate almost everybody that arrogant, but it's linus and he says the truth and i love it. His message to Nvidia was fun as well ;)

[Gabriel Garcia]

Git is a SCM system. SCM stands for Source Control Management. You are not the intended audience for this product. I'm concerned you may be using hammers to cut your sandwiches. We have knives, you know?

[fabio rosario de jesus fabio]

momento de saudade lebransa que nao volta

[ELIENE SIMOES FERREIRA]

n entendo english

[Xaekai]

"CVS is Awesome!" -said no one ever.

[inscii]

That is correct, however, this is something traditional CVS systems (with a centralized server), have no problems with. On subversion/cvs/perforce I can just make the artists upload to a different folder in the repo (via access control), and they can enjoy version revisioning for their assets without any problems, cooperating with the versions of the code simultaneously (rolling back to an older version also rolls back the data). That's why I still prefer traditional CVS for game development

[rossotorres]

Git was never meant for asset managing. You should use a different solution for managing game resources.

[zeadidas]

Game programmer here too. While I agree with you, where I work, data and source code come separated. Artists upload their assets in one trunk, programmers in another. GIT isn’t suited for binary files, yet it is awesome for source code, but again, it was never meant any other way.

[Wolfgang Schreurs]

Git keeps track of deltas (change-sets), but it needs the original project to perform the deltas on. From the base project all deltas are applied to the current version. So if 5 artist add 5 big files, all will be applied in order to the original version of the project to reach the most current version of the project. Either way, binary data should in most situations not be stored in a with a project anyway.

[Petter Kjelkenes]

Favorite quote: "You can disagree with me -as much as you want, but during this talk -by definition, anybody who disagrees is -stupid and ugly".

[comkieffer]

I thought git only downloaded deltas ? Does that not work for binary files ?