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This collection is put together +by the creator of Fossil, so of course there is selection bias... + +<h2>On The Usability Of Git</h2> + +<ol> +<li>Git approaches the usability of iptables, which is to say, utterly +unusable unless you have the manpage tattooed on you arm. + +<p class="local-indent"> +<i>by mml at [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1433387]</i> +</p> + +<li><nowiki>It's simplest to think of the state of your [git] repository +as a point in a high-dimensional "code-space", in which branches are +represented as n-dimensional membranes, mapping the spatial loci of +successive commits onto the projected manifold of each cloned +repository.</nowiki> + +<p class="local-indent"> +<i>by Jonathan Hartley at +[https://www.tartley.com/posts/a-guide-to-git-using-spatial-analogies]; +<br>Quoted here: [https://lwn.net/Articles/420152/].</i> +</p> + +<li>Git is not a Prius. Git is a Model T. +Its plumbing and wiring sticks out all over the place. +You have to be a mechanic to operate it successfully or you'll be +stuck on the side of the road when it breaks down. +And it <b>will</b> break down. + +<p class="local-indent"> +<i>Nick Farina at [http://nfarina.com/post/9868516270/git-is-simpler]</i> +</p> + +<li>Initial revision of "git", The information manager from hell + +<p class="local-indent"> +<i>Linus Torvalds - 2005-04-07 22:13:13<br> +Commit comment on the very first source-code check-in for git +</p> + +<li>I've been experimenting a lot with git at work. +Damn, it's complicated. +It has things to trip you up with that sane people just wouldn't ever both with +including the ability to allow you to commit stuff in such a way that you can't find +it again afterwards (!!!) +Demented workflow complexity on acid? +<p>* dkf really wishes he could use fossil instead</p> +<p class="local-indent"> +<i>by Donal K. Fellow (dkf) on the Tcl/Tk chatroom, 2013-04-09.</i> +</p> + +<li>[G]it is <i>designed</i> to forget things. + +<p class="local-indent"> +<i>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~davide/howto/git_lose.html] +</p> + +<li>[I]n nearly 31 years of using a computer i have, in total, lost more data to git +(while following the instructions!!!) than any other single piece of software. + +<p class="local-indent"> +<i>Stephan Beal on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg17181.html|Fossil mailing list] + 2014-09-01.</i> +</p> + +<li>If programmers _really_ wanted to help scientists, they'd build a version control +system that was more usable than Git. + +<p class="local-indent"> +<i>Tweet by Greg Wilson @gvwilson on 2015-02-22 17:47</i> +</p> + +<li><img src='xkcd-git.gif' align='top'> + +<p class="local-indent"><i>Randall Munroe. [http://xkcd.com/1597/]</i><p> + +</ol> + +<h2>On The Usability Of Fossil</h2> + +<ol> +<li value=11> +Fossil mesmerizes me with simplicity especially after I struggled to +get a bug-tracking system to work with mercurial. + +<p class="local-indent"> +<i>rawjeev at [https://stackoverflow.com/a/2100469/142454]</i> +</p> + +<li>Fossil is the best thing to happen +to my development workflow this year, as I am pretty sure that using +Git has resulted in the premature death of too many of my brain cells. +I'm glad to be able to replace Git in every place that I possibly can +with Fossil. + +<p class="local-indent"> +<i>Joe Prostko at [http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg16716.html] +</p> + +<li>This is my favourite VCS. I can carry it on a USB. And it's a complete system, with it's own +server, ticketing system, Wiki pages, and a very, very helpful timeline visualization. And +the entire program in a single file! + +<p class="local-indent"> +<i>thunderbong commenting on hacker news: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9131619]</i> +</p> + + +</ol> + + +<h2>On Git Versus Fossil</h2> + +<ol> +<li value=14> +After prolonged exposure to fossil, i tend to get the jitters when I work with git... + +<p class="local-indent"> +<i>sriku - at [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16104427]</i> +</p> + + +<li> +Just want to say thanks for fossil making my life easier.... +Also <nowiki>[for]</nowiki> not having a misanthropic command line interface. + +<p class="local-indent"> +<i>Joshua Paine at [http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg02736.html]</i> +</p> + +<li>We use it at a large university to manage code that small teams write. +The runs everywhere, ease of installation and portability is something that +seems to be a good fit with the environment we have (highly ditrobuted, +sometimes very restrictive firewalls, OSX/Win/Linux). We are happy with it +and teaching a Msc/Phd student (read complete novice) fossil has just +been a smoother ride than Git was. + +<p class="local-indent"> +<i>viablepanic at [https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bxcto/why_not_fossil_scm/c0p30b4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3]</i> +</p> + +<li>In the fossil community - and hence in fossil itself - development history +is pretty much sacrosanct. The very name "fossil" was to chosen to +reflect the unchanging nature of things in that history. +<br><br> +In git (or rather, the git community), the development history is part of +the published aspect of the project, so it provides tools for rearranging +that history so you can present what you "should" have done rather +than what you actually did. + +<p class="local-indent"> +<i>Mike Meyer on the Fossil mailing list, 2011-10-04</i> +</p> + +<li>github is such a pale shadow of what fossil does. + +<p class="local-indent"> +<i>dkf on the Tcl chatroom, 2013-12-06</i> +</p> + +<li>[With fossil] I actually enjoy keeping track of source files again. + +<p class="local-indent"> +<a href="https://wholesomedonut.prose.sh/using-fossil-not-git">https://wholesomedonut.prose.sh/using-fossil-not-git</a> +</p> +</ol> |