Git

Good talk, I now definitely don't want to use git. Specifically designed for a big, very distributed development team - the linux kernel. Can you make it work for smaller projects? Sure, but why would you bother when the tool support for other SCM tools is so much better. If you really need the distributed repo model so you can commit when you're on a plane, mercurial seems much better. Although really, you want to commit when you're on a plane? Give me a break.

Actually I find git very suitable for small projects too. Why not just try it yourself, and find out? It's the best way. :-)

At least for Linux, I like it. On Windows you have to mess around with msysgit et al.

He just hurried through it & had absolutely no interest in building up any kind of coherent, sensible explanation of how Git is different than other version control systems. It's kinda sad, that something as cool as git has guys like him - who might be an amazing engineer - sucks at even the most basic explanation, evangelizing it. Don't lose hope though, git is really not as hard as he makes it out to be - check out jim weirich's 'gentle introduction to git' instead. Difference is night & day.

So much information. Way more than I needed at the moment. But its good to know that one day I might want to watch this full video.

I got so sick of Linus talk after 5 minutes. I was simultanously falling asleep (CVS bla, CVS blub) and wanting to kill somebody (Everyone who agress with me is fat and ugly. Eat this mofos).

This talk is much better, and the comment about "Linus showed you what Git *is not*, I'm going to show you what Git *is*" at the start really shows what Randal thinks about Linux presentation. Helped to elevate my mood after the Linus talk, also.



Had to get this out of my system. Peace folks. ^_^

s/agress/disagrees/

True.

OMFG* !!! What a ~shill! !! !

He said NOTHING that cannot be read online. He never really addresses what GIT does for real version-control; just makes claims about right and wrong and how GIT does it right. Not much different than Linus's talk in that way - devoid of a real useful message.

This is just one more video to put an well-known OSS face w/ Linus's latest toy - and let's not forget the brand assocation w/ Google via a - oooo - Google Tech Talk.

So why don't you install git and use it?
See if you like it or not.

I did and I do minus a few details. But that's no different from other tools that I like. It is currently #2 on my short-list of VC SW.

next, your post is not a "reply" to mine as mine addressed the quality of Schwartz's preso, not git itself. Many of Torvalds's and Schwartz's comments are based on CVS which is on the fast-track to obsolescence and was long before git. They MIGHT say something interesting if they understood that branching and merging are not inherently expensive nowadays.