I actually believed the headline until I read more of the summary. Ya it sounds totally crazy and stupid, yet that's the sort of idiocy that happens every day in computing.
I actually believed the headline until I read more of the summary.
And...? The summary and headline are in agreement. (There was a Soylent article too that looked like a blatant April Fool's Day joke but actually wasn't.)
Granted, in the months leading up to the Slashcott, I actively assumed that every summary was blatantly lying to me or at least attempting to mischaracterize the situation...so read the comments until you find the one guy who knows what's actually going on...but the quality seems to have spiked recently. (Gee, isn't that a remarkable coincidence?)
Tony Stevenson made changes - Today 16:51 Comment [ Pfft! Happy April's fool! For immediate release: Apache Subversion votes to rename itself Apache Irony, creates a black hole and disappears. ]
Hmm. Buried in a separate tab from the huge page of comments of everybody taking it seriously.
git: stores and compares decentralized repositories extremly well. It's good if you have loose collaborations without a central insitution providing the repo service. Advantages are that people can quickly store their own versions during development
subversion: manages a single repository in cases where preventing multiple (uncontrolled) branches is mandated to the organization responsible (Yes, it is an advantage not to have too many different possible original sources of builds).
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
-- R. A. Heinlein
April Fool's! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:April Fool's! (Score:1)
Actually, I've read pieces written by ex SVN developers that make this joke believable... many of the devs wouldn't even grumble about it.
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I actually believed the headline until I read more of the summary. Ya it sounds totally crazy and stupid, yet that's the sort of idiocy that happens every day in computing.
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I actually believed the headline until I read more of the summary.
And...? The summary and headline are in agreement. (There was a Soylent article too that looked like a blatant April Fool's Day joke but actually wasn't.)
Granted, in the months leading up to the Slashcott, I actively assumed that every summary was blatantly lying to me or at least attempting to mischaracterize the situation...so read the comments until you find the one guy who knows what's actually going on...but the quality seems to have spiked recently. (Gee, isn't that a remarkable coincidence?)
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Tony Stevenson made changes - Today 16:51
Comment [ Pfft! Happy April's fool!
For immediate release: Apache Subversion votes to rename itself Apache Irony, creates a black hole and disappears. ]
Hmm. Buried in a separate tab from the huge page of comments of everybody taking it seriously.
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I am a happy user of both. Subversion and Git have different fields of application, and that is good.
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git: stores and compares decentralized repositories extremly well. It's good if you have loose collaborations without a central insitution providing the repo service. Advantages are that people can quickly store their own versions during development
subversion: manages a single repository in cases where preventing multiple (uncontrolled) branches is mandated to the organization responsible (Yes, it is an advantage not to have too many different possible original sources of builds).