Re: [PATCH/POLL] git-format-patch: the default suffix is now .patch, not .txt

On 1/18/07, Shawn O. Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

The _real_ majority of the programmers desperately need a better
VCS than CVS, SVN, Perforce, SourceSafe, ClearCase, etc.

Yes.  But...

Yesterday I had a conversation with the software configuration
management guy at my day-time-pays-the-bills organization.
They are seriously looking at Perforce and ClearCase, as these are
lightyears ahead of what we have already (PVCS Version Manager).
They also have 1-800-my-vendor telephone numbers which you can
call and scream at someone when the tool corrupts its internal
database[*1*], or when you cannot figure out what the "Checkout"
action in the context menu does[*2*].

However my fellow developers and I use Git.  We export our changes
out to PVCS Version Manager via an *ugly* Perl script that I would
never actually wish on anyone (which is one reason why its not
contributed as git-pvcsexport).  Configuration management guy won't
even look at Git's real strengths as it lacks the all-important
1-800-git-help[*3*] phone number.

Of course, he is the who'll do the yelling. It's you who'll need support.
Standard Perforce replies: "it is not supported" (if you need branches
as in Git), or "we will probably look into it" (if you point them to a bug.
They never really do). Worst performance in the industry, too.

ClearCase had a sleep(6 /*sec*/) before writing a file in local checkouts
on linux, for whatever reason :) It at least knows about oriented graphs.