Julia EvansMar 19, 2024

gonna do a short thread of git vs other version control systems polls just to get an overall vibe

poll 1: if you've used both hg and git, which do you prefer?

(no replies please though, i have already read 300 comments about git vs other version control systems today and i can't read more)

hg
21.3%
git
65.5%
depends
7.7%
other
5.4%
Poll ended at .
Show threadJulia EvansMar 19, 2024

poll 2: if you've used both svn and git, which do you prefer?

(no replies please, i have already read 300 comments about git vs other version control systems today and they were great but i can't read more)

svn
3.5%
git
91.8%
depends
3.2%
other
1.5%
Poll ended at .
Show threadJulia EvansMar 27, 2024

poll: is any of these your favourite version control system?

(please don't reply if your answer is "other”, i have some polls elsewhere in this thread about other systems)

bazaar
13.8%
fossil
33.9%
perforce
34.9%
cvs
17.4%
Poll ended at .
Show threadJulia EvansMar 27, 2024

poll: is any of these your favourite version control system?

(please don't reply if your answer is "other”, i have some polls elsewhere in this thread about other systems)

clearcase
12.9%
pijul
41.9%
darcs
35.5%
TFS/TFVC
9.7%
Poll ended at .
Show threadSpace HoboMar 28, 2024
@b0rk I think that most of these are effectively answers to "which non-git VCS do you have the most experience with" with a caveat for CVS perhaps. The interesting one is pijul, which comes after and was in some ways a reaction against git.
Show threadSpace HoboMar 28, 2024
@b0rk Although I find it interesting that pijul's marketing reminds me a *lot* of what darcs used to say about its model.
Show thread: j@fabrica:~/src;  Mar 29, 2024
@spacehobo 100% feels like it’s an attempt to do darcs over again. I know the Haskell tool chain was a blocker for some, performance for many more. So far, it’s feeling nice for the personal efforts I used to use darcs for. But I’ll surely get back to @b0rk when I find a reason to get angry at it.
[edit: no autocorrect, it’s not “farce” but “darcs”]
Show threadD.C.U.K.

@josephholsten @spacehobo @b0rk

They do go to some trouble to say on their website that they're not a theory-of-patches based system like darcs, which, well, not a selling point for me, but I wonder if there is some math-phobia going on too where the fact that darcs is based on a formal theory makes people afraid that they can't understand or work with it.

Apr 4, 2024 at 7:08pmWeb