Great. Just Great. I wanted to remain a lazy leech, just using the selfless work others have done on subversion for my own personal advantage. The problem is, as soon as I read HACKING and learn how to submit a patch and begin by contributing something as tiny as a FAQ fix, I'll be hooked, and I'll start to become a contributing member of society. Next, I'm afraid I'll want to tackle a bite-sized task and help fix bugs and develop the product. (You guys are so sneaky!!) :-)
(“Sorry, Honey. Can you take care of that? I have to submit another svn patch…”)
What happened to Christopher Michael Pilato? Is he gone? Is he gone for good? Is he gone for better? Is he gone for best? Is he gone forever? Will he return? Who is Christopher Michael Pilato, anyway?
weird, mine and jack's come out way too fast with this player... but the others all work fine.
rooneg
and after hearing them all, i have two things to say: first, it must be really amusing hearing that stuff randomly throughout the day in the office, and two, cmike spent far too long on his ;-)
sussman
rooneg: yours and jack's got corrupted
sussman
cmpilato goofed when converting from mp3 to ogg
sussman
he's gonna fix it, tho
rooneg
cool
* rooneg
considers filing a critical issue about the problem ;-)
clkao: I have a 1.25TB CVS repo that I'm afraid they'll ask me to convert
sussman
fear!
jackr
... and loathing!
clkao
you must! since you're @collab
clkao
heh
sussman
indeed.
jackr
It would probably go into several SVN repos (there are no boundaries inside CVS, so it's not necessarily 1::1). But individual pieces are often much bigger than 10.5GB
How can I best install Subversion on a Debian Stable system?
breser
rindolf: Presumably with apt.
rindolf
breser: subversion is not present in Debian Stable, and installing it from testing or unstable may require upgrading half if not more of the system.
rindolf
And I know what apt is.
* rindolf
kicks breser so he won't give obvious but useless answers like Microsoft support persons.
* breser
kicks rindolf so he won't ask vague questions that result in obvious but useless responses when he already knows the obvious but useless response is the obvious response to give.
* rindolf
kicks breser for no reason at all.
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2008-07-04
Looking for sussman, at #svn, the Subversion Channel.
a friend of mine runs a small restaurant and wants to professionalize his IT. Our idea was to store everything in subversion (we use Debian with svn 1.3). We had absolutely no problems with the 2D objects, converting recipes to ASCII and storing them was peanuts. However the 3D objects are giving us a headache - the forks and knifes are stuck in the keyboard, we even destroyed a floppy drive trying to read an apple.
Any ideas how we can still use SVN to store everything?
Konrad Rosenbaum on the Subversion Users' mailing list http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-04/0008.shtml 1 April 2006
Linus isn't saying that CVS and Subversion have fixable bugs or missing features. It's not about the code.
He is saying that they solve the wrong problem. The Subversion team wants to solve Problem A, and Linus wants to solve Problem B. No amount of code will turn the solution to Problem A into a solution for Problem B. Bothering the Subversion team with code addressing Problem B will only irritate them, since they're working on Problem A.
The right way to handle differing goals is to start a different project. That's what he did.
Don't be confused by the labels. Source Code Management means different things to different people, and there isn't always much overlap in how each person defines it. Ships and airplanes are both 'vehicles', but that doesn't mean that a few changes will turn one to the other.
Regarding keyword substitution: It turns out that Linus thinks it's a horrible idea: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2006/10/9/223932
His argument is that it may destroy binary files.
This is bogus since keyword-substitution is *off* by default. It will occur only for files that were explicitly marked for substitution. For example in subversion:
Computer Scientists love git, not just because it comes first alphabetically, but because it's stupid. Everyone else loves git because it's GIT!
"Git is the stupid content tracker."
And git doesn't waste space on my Newton MessagePad. Just look:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 2009 /bin/git -rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 2005 /usr/bin/hg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 2001 /usr/local/subversion/bin/svn
Of course, on the system *I* administrate, hg is symlinked to git. svn has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 10GB; and 3) RUNS GIT!!!!!!
Git, the greatest WYGIWYG revision control system of all.
GIT IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! GIT HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! GIT WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! GIT IS THE STUPID CONTENT TRACKER! GIT MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!! GIT WAS HANDED DOWN TO US FROM LINUS UPON THE MOUNTAIN, AND LINUX USERS SHALL NOT WORSHIP ANY OTHER TRACKER!
When I use a version control system, I don't want eight extra MEGABYTES of worthless HTTP protocol support. I just want to GIT on with my coding! I don't want to subvert away or mercurialize! Those aren't even WORDS!!! GIT! GIT! GIT IS THE STUPID!!!
CONTENT TRACKER.
When Linus, in his ever-present omnipotence, needed to base his patch juggling habits on existing tools, did he mimic svn? No. Hg? Surely you jest. He created the most karmic version tracker of all. The stupid one.
Git is for those who can *remember* what project they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use subversion. If you are subversive, you should not be mercurial. If you use GIT, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED "FRIENDLY" SCM SYSTEMS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY GIT TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY LINUS HAS SPOKEN!!!
