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Cat poni, Whorseman of Apocalypse
pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz
mercurial again
pure hatred really, i though i would not, but i do
pure hatred really, i though i would not, but i do
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Cat poni, Whorseman of Apocalypse
pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz
@ljs i have carefully picked state to commit out of more larger changes in the repo, a pre-commit hook failed, i have tried again, one big commit with everything, have to pick all shit again
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@pony damn.
I remember using mercurial when git was very early days and quite liking it, well in comparison to fucking microsoft source safe (!!!) I was using before
I remember using mercurial when git was very early days and quite liking it, well in comparison to fucking microsoft source safe (!!!) I was using before
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Cat poni, Whorseman of Apocalypse
pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz
@ljs it’s not even that horrible but you kind of have to understand it has not been seriously developed and improved since like 2016
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@pony yeah I guess people saw which way the wind was blowing.
I feel like it's a pity more people don't try entirely new and radical approaches to source control just so we could see some new ideas floated etc.
I feel like it's a pity more people don't try entirely new and radical approaches to source control just so we could see some new ideas floated etc.
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@pony @lkundrak won't be as bad as sourcesafe.
Truly the most stupid of all source control mechanisms and I saw my then boss (this is like 2007 era lol) constantly having to run a repair on its database.
I did say 'do you think that's a good sign?' and he laughed at me as if I was stupid to question it
Truly the most stupid of all source control mechanisms and I saw my then boss (this is like 2007 era lol) constantly having to run a repair on its database.
I did say 'do you think that's a good sign?' and he laughed at me as if I was stupid to question it
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HAMMER SMASHED FILESYSTEM 🇺🇦
lkundrak@metalhead.club
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HAMMER SMASHED FILESYSTEM 🇺🇦
lkundrak@metalhead.club
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Cat poni, Whorseman of Apocalypse
pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz
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@ljs @pony this also sounds oddly reminiscent of stale locks in svn (or was it even cvs??)
btw before version control, perl used a pumpkin for access control. only whoever was in possession of a dried pumpkin could upload to ftp, and everyone's patches had to go through him. after a release they'd hand the pumpkin somebody else. i think that to this day perl release managers rotate after a release and are called "pumpkings"
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@ljs @pony There are at least two in development, pijul and jj (jujutsu). Neither has convinced me that it's better than git /for what I need/, but you can't complain nothing is happening in VCS space. Also there's fossil (by sqlite gang), I once tried to import linux kernel sources to it and gave up after a few hours the repo.db had like 1G and progress 10%. Db stored on tmpfs for speed.
If you're a database engine developer, every problem can be solved by database. Still somehow "Ad-hoc pile-of-files key/value database" beats it.
If you're a database engine developer, every problem can be solved by database. Still somehow "Ad-hoc pile-of-files key/value database" beats it.
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