Re: should we use bazaar?

On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 15:32 +1000, Luke Daley wrote:
> On 04/07/2008, at 3:23 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
>
> >> And you are doing `git svn` commands? not `git-svn`?
> >
> > Should that matter.  git is just a string processing front end to all
> > the git-??? commands.
>
> No idea. I just started using `git svn` and it worked. The git CLI is  
> pure magic to me.

:-)

Actually I think it is beyond magic; git has gone beyond the dark arts
and delved into the realm of reifying CLI chaos.  Not to mention going
for the record of having the most different programming languages used
in a single (in)coherent system.  On the other hand, it is amazing that
the Git commands actually do what the manual entries say they do,
assuming you can understand what the manual is trying to say.  A
mundane, but potentially confusing, Git quiz question has to be:

"What does

        git checkout fred

do?"

The answer is deterministic and knowable, just context dependent.

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