Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008

Hi,

Dmitry Potapov wrote:

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:53:27AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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   11. Why did you choose Git? (if you use Git)
       What do you like about using Git?
       (free form, not to be tabulated)

Again, to avoid hassles with free-form:

	Mandatory: work, mandatory: open source project I am participating 
	in, speed, scalability, It's What Linus Uses, Other.

If we move away from free-form, it should be much more choices here.

- Ability to work offline
- Cryptographic authentication of history.
- Distributed development (pull/push from/to more than one remote repo)
- Easy to extend functionality through scripting
- Efficient storage model
- Elegant design
- Fast
- Good community support
- Rewriting patches before publishing (git rebase, commit --amend)
- Scalability (Efficient handling of large projects)
- Strong support for non-linear development
- Support of wide range of protocols for synchronization.
...

Heh, I can imagine git users reading that survey and thinking
 "What? Git allows me to rewrite patches before publishing?
  And it provides cryptographic integrity? Sounds good. *click*"

Nevertheless, the list is fine ;)
Perhaps also: "Good reputation".

Regards.

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