Bram Cohen on Version Control best practices
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bs. it just means that your version-control sucks at that.
> The history of a branch is hardly ever looked at.
bs. i am sure folks look at it all the time. at least i do
most of the other stuff seems reasonable though.
I don't think he was being intentionally inflammatory, and I was curious to see if any others actually agreed. Has anyone actually experimented with codeville (Bram's vc tool?)
There are a few people who I would never want to argue with on a few subjects.
On the subject of revision control systems, here's the list of people I would never want to argue with:
Linus Torvalds
Bram Cohen
Tom Lord
David Roundy
I'm sure there are others, but I don't know them by name...and that probably means something about the ones I do know by name given that I'm not a VCS geek and I don't use any DVCS system.
I'm not saying you shouldn't argue with them. I just think I know who I'm willing to take advice from merely on "authority". You'll need to be a more effective salesman of your ideas, if you're to argue successfully in this instance.