cairo: an opportunity for advocacy?

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 11:00:21PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Denys Duchier, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> The following message from Carl Worth explains why he is likely to
> go for git:

The reason given for git over hg seems like it would apply as well to
git over bzr, at least until we grow repositories.


Rambling digression follows:

I was recently (~last fall) trying to get a friend of mine to use CVS,
instead of the nothing he was currently using for version control.  He
was familiar with it in general, and had a complaint about it as
related to how gnome stuff was using it.  Presumably (I'm guessing a
bit here) they have anoncvs access to it, and he figured CVS was crap
because it wouldn't let him list the modules available; you had to
know what you were checking out.

It seemed a bizarre objection to me.  I mean, if I want you to access
something, I'll tell you what the module is.  I have to tell you where
the repository is anyway; it's not like this requires a whole new
channel of communication.  Once or twice, I've needed to know a module
name of something, but I've always solved that with that arcane tool
called "ls".  So I guess maybe it's not so nutty as it appeared at the
time.  And with branch names in a top-level namespace, it's even less
nutty.


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