[Gambas-user] Control Backgroung/Foreground colour

John Leake jleake at ...3375...
Wed Sep 17 17:38:24 CEST 2014


Just watch the Linus 2007 video and make your own mind up.

On 17/09/14 15:39, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
>> 1) SVN will not detect a corruption - with Git the sha1 hash will
>> confirm that your source is unadulterated no matter who you pull it from.
>>
> 
> Applies to situation where there is more than one repo where to pull. AFAIK
> there isn't for Gambas.
> 
> 
> 
>> 2) With SVN, all your eggs are in one basket - Linus does not (or need
>> to) back up the linux kernel because everyone has a copy.
>>
> 
> Well, backups are something you have to do anyway. Unless everything
> important in you computer is on the git repo. I don't think so.
> 
> 
> 3) With Git branching and merging are really cheap and hence very fast -
>> SVN fosters long periods of lone worker activity (during which there is
>> no source code control) simply because merging is difficult and you do
>> not want to commit half baked fixes because of the repercussions to
>> other users by forcing more merges on them.
>>
> 
> Maybe, I didn't get that far.
> 
> 
> 
>> 4) With Git you can work on the source without having a connection to
>> the server and still remain protected by source control.
>>
> 
> I didn't like how this source control was implemented, I find it extremely
> clumsy.
> 
> 
> 
>> To me it works best through a good Gui client or when it is part of your
>> IDE (I am used to Jetbrains).  But if you are a command-line junkie then
>> fill your boots.
>>
> 
> I'm OK with both. Maybe some nice GUI would hide the complexity and make
> git great... sounds just quite a bit of work.
> 
> 
> 
> Jussi
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