dist-hg proof-of-concept ready for use

[Jesse Keating]

On Monday 13 November 2006 23:30, David Woodhouse wrote:
> You mean memory footprint? Can you show your measurements?

No, I meant on disk footprint.  Git repos, while smaller than CVS, are still 
larger than hg.

> >  B) a user experience that isn't a complete disaster, leading to multiple
> > rewritten front ends that confuse the issue even further
>
> That was true a year or so ago because git itself basically _lacked_ a
> front end. It's not the case any more.

Not so.  I ran into many issues just trying to do normal usage of git, that is 
create a repo, add a file, commit the file.  Things are not intuitive, the 
docs are extremely hard to follow, and I got told I need to update something 
called an index, which STILL didn't work.  Asking around, everybody who uses 
git has ran into these same problems, and have even asked to get things fixed 
upstream but to no avail.  Linus is not interested in changing how git works 
to have more sane defaults.  That's fine, git works great for his usage case, 
not so much for our community of software packagers.

> >  C) an upstream that is actually willing to listen to our problems and
> > fix them or help us to fix them
>
> That seems rather strange to me. What causes you to believe that git
> lacks such qualities in its upstream maintainers? (Sorry, my mail server
> at home is temporarily dead so I can't easily look back at my archives
> of the git mailing list).

Reports from other Red Hat employees who have tried to get things changed 
upstream to be more intuitive and less confusing, basically meeting a brick 
wall.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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