Tag Archives: version control

git

Monday, December 31st, 2007

I just watched Linus Torvalds talking about git, the distributed version control system he wrote. What struck me here is that several times in this talk he was asked by Google employees variations on the theme of “why should *we* use git?”, and he didn’t have a compelling answer. His statements boiled down to “we [...]

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svn synonym

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

I’d like to take a moment to (a) completely alienate my audience, and (b) ruin my credibility. I will do this by discussing the semantics of a particular operation of the Subversion version control system, and explaining how poorly I initially understood it. It took me a while to realize how svn merge should be [...]

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