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OK, enjoy Git then.

Your claim about merging is false though, demonstrably. Picking a repo gca when you could have used a much closer file gca is better. BK does that and automerges, correctly, more frequently and is way way faster than Git.

I've written two source management systems. I'm confident in my knowledge. Arguing with some random dude who thinks he knows more than me is not really fun. So go enjoy Git. Lots of people are too busy/whatever to know what they are missing, maybe that's you. It's not me, I kinda like my audit trail to be accurate.

Even Linus admitted to me in my kitchen that Git's audit trail is lossy. But go enjoy Git, I'm glad it works for you. Knock yourself out.

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> Arguing with some random dude who thinks he knows more than me is not really fun.

That comment is not very nice and does not serve your otherwise interesting comments.

So why do you think BitKeeper failed and git is current leader in popularity?

It was proprietary for ages.

That doesn't really explain why perforce, and mercurial seem more popular, nor the lack of current buzz around the project. I could be wrong but I can't say the mind share is very high.

It was proprietary.

Linus wrote Git. Fanboy followed.

>BK does that and automerges, correctly, more frequently and is way way faster than Git.

Demonstrate it. You said it was demonstrable so presumably your Totally Sane SCM project should have evidence to back this up.

>Arguing with some random dude who thinks he knows more than me is not really fun.

Why because you basically made a complete fool of yourself?

>Even Linus admitted to me in my kitchen that Git's audit trail is lossy.

You might describe it as FUZZY, but not "lossy." Nothing is being "lost." My random internet dude that is actually an insane assertion to make, especially the anecdote about Linus being in your god damn kitchen. Not that it really changes anything about the characteristics of any SCM and why people use it.

>But go enjoy Git, I'm glad it works for you.

Enjoy your dead project. Glad it could be surrounded by a graveyard of other Totally Sane (C) SCM's who are collectively responsible for an untold amount of wasted man hours and licensing fees.

Linus, in my kitchen, surrounded by impressed women who were asking how he lost weight. He had just answered the question "did you give up drinking" with a "hell, no!"

http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/photos/2007/05/276.html

ZFS guys (Brian, Jeff and Bill) at the same party (I thought I had one with Linus and them, they were all at the same table talking file systems):

http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/photos/2007/05/257.html

Funny story, I invited Linus to the pig roast and he didn't RSVP so there wasn't anywhere for him to sleep. I ended up sticking him and his daughter in a VW popup van :)

You can kindly wander off now, random internet dude. Especially since the guy who wrote Git agrees that it is lossy, so take your FUZZY and go home.

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