On 3/21/2012 8:18 AM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
on Tue Mar 20 2012, Edward Diener<eldiener-AT-tropicsoft.com> wrote:
On 3/20/2012 7:03 AM, Julian Gonggrijp wrote: ... snip
Well, allow me to present some fair reasoning to you.
With regard to git versus svn: I think enough fair reasons have been given why git (or a DVCS in general) is better than svn. I'm not going to repeat those arguments here.
I have never heard a single technical argument, in all the endless mentions of Git among the people riding that bandwagon, why Git is better than SVN, or even why any DVCS is better than a centralized SCCS. I consider this whole move to Git and/or DVCS among "hip" programmers little more than a move to conform with what others are doing and feel "cool".
Wait for Beman's talk at BoostCon/C++Now (http://cppnow.org/session/moving-boost-to-git/). Beman is among the last people I'd accuse of being preoccupied with what's "hip" and "cool"
I will be glad to listen to Beman's talk when it appears online.
I am perfectly willing to read well-chosen technical arguments but not from people already sold on one side or the other. But I really despair of anyone being able to present such arguments in the atmosphere created by Git fanatics and DVCS fanatics. The only thing I have gotten from all this is "I've tried it, I like it, and therefore its superior".
Feel free, anyone, to point me to a purely technical discussion, article, whatnot, explaining the practical reasons why using a DVCS, or Git, is more productive and more pleasurable than using a centralized SCCS like Subversion.
A purely technical discussion is unlikely to be able to give you much insight into pleasure. The biologists are still trying to plumb the depths of that one :-)
If someone technically savvy asks you what the advantages of programming with C++ are, do you answer that it gives you pleasure or do you enumerate the technical advantages which make it easier to use in programming tasks ? All I have been asking for is some good technical arguments by which using a DVCS is easier, more flexible, superior than using a centralized SCCS. What I keep getting back, unfortunately, is a philosophy, or a personal preference, or a try-it-you'll-like-it answer. I will be looking forward to understanding the techncial arguments from Beman's talk.