Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Arch Linux Repos Finally Join The 21st Century" video.

  1. I remember Linus Torvalds’ scathing response to the idea that “SVN is CVS done right”. As far as he was concerned, there was no way that CVS could be “done right”.
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  2. The BSDs are the classic illustration of the principle that the success of an open-source project doesn’t depend on numbers of users, but on the strength of the contributions from the community.
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  3. I remember Linus Torvalds’ scathing response to the idea that “SVN is CVS done right”. As far as he was concerned, there was no way that CVS could be “done right”.
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  4. SVN initially made a big deal out of the idea of “cheap copies”. Prior VCSes made it difficult to create branches, because they had to keep separate copies of files even if they didn’t change. SVN fixed that problem, but it never managed to solve the issue of, having spawned off a new branch, how do you merge them back again? The one thing Git does better than any VCS is merging of branches. I think Mercurial has been trying to emulate Git on this score. Last I heard, they had made about 4 attempts to implement branching, none of them quite up to Git functionality.
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  5. I remember Linus Torvalds’ scathing response to the idea that “SVN is CVS done right”. As far as he was concerned, there was no way that CVS could be “done right”.
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