[ros-dev] Microsoft switched to Git

[Zachary Gorden]

Until the following clumsiness in git get resolved, it remains in my
opinion an inferior revision control system to svn.

1) Attempts to push changes should not require any intervention on the part
of the user to pull and rebase if someone else got in a commit ahead of
time, this should be done automatically. I don't care that someone else
might have gotten a commit in first, especially if they're working on an
entirely different part of the repo. The only case where it should require
manual intervention is if a merge fails because we touched the same block
of code in the same file. Anything else, including touching different parts
of the same file, should be transparent.

2) Attempts to pull in general should not stumble because I've made changes
to a file and not added it. Git should be tracking changes automatically
and only require user intervention if, again, the pulled changes outright
conflicts with a local change, regardless of whether it's "added" or not.

3) If I commit multiple files at once, I should be able to roll back any
arbitrary number of those files instead of having to revert the entire
commit.

As a user, I should not need to have to fight with the revision control
software every time I need to make a change, nor should I need to tell the
revision control software what to track and how to track it. It's its
bloody job to do that, why should I suddenly have to take on additional
management responsibilities when I gain nothing of benefit in return? I
should not need to care about what anyone else is doing UNLESS we happen to
be trying to do the same thing. Considering every project wherein I've used
git the quickest solution to deal with git's merge cockups is to do a clean
checkout, I am unsure why everyone seems so enthusiastic about it. Are all
of you expecting to work in complete isolation from each other and never
have to deal with the inevitable when you try to commit? Cause avoiding
these sorts of problems in git requires a discipline and level of
coordination that this project has historically not demonstrated, whereas
our usage of svn has basically kept people relatively insulated from these
issues by virtue of the fact that svn handles most of them for you.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Magnus Johnsson <magnusjjj at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Why use a hammer as a screwdriver just because it has worked before?
>
> 2017-02-15 16:04 GMT+01:00 Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo <
> elhoir at gmail.com>:
>
>> why change a working solution?
>>
>> its a questin i have done myself many times :P
>>
>>
>>
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