nixCraft 🐧Sep 6, 2025
Which opensource software does everyone use but you absolutely loathe it?
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@nixCraft systemd and git. They are nearly everywhere I need to collaborate with other people/teams and it is always painful. Always find it weird these projects became more popular than the better alternatives.
Show threadJustine SmithiesSep 6, 2025
If not git what would you use and why if you don't mind me asking ?

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@justine @nixCraft cvs, svn, a mailing list and patches, filesystem snapshots and full copies of edited files. The bar is so low for being a better option than giit I would take almost anything above "writing every change by hand and printing copies of the source as a backup".
Show threadSilmathoron ⁂
@distrowatch what do cvs and svn do differently, compared to git?
(not sure what you mean by "writing every change by hand and printing copies of the source as a backup")
@justine @nixCraft
Sep 6, 2025 at 6:35pmWeb
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@silmathoron @justine @nixCraft cvs and svn are entirely different models for source control.

By "writing changes by hand and printing copies" I mean exactly that, literally. Typing every code (instead of patches) and then printing hard copies of the code for archival.