[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Enabled new interactive prompt and updated some tests.

[Bryan Ischo]

Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Sebastian Nowicki <sebnow at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 23/02/2009, at 12:57 PM, Bryan Ischo wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> OK, so I guess I really need to get into the habit of using git-rebase -i.
>>>       
>> Yes, git rebase is one of the most wonderful things about git.
>>     
>
> git rebase -i, git add -p, and git stash are my three most "omg
> awesome" git commands.

Just curious ... what's so awesome about git stash?  It seems to me that 
it is only necessary because git doesn't support multiple branches in 
the same tree.  The Perforce (and some DVCS systems like Bazaar) way is 
to root each branch at a different subdirectory of your repository 
top-level directory in your local filesystem.  Then you can work on 
files in multiple branches simultaneously without having to 'switch' 
your view between them constantly, 'stashing' and 'unstashing' changes 
all the time.

Honestly, there are two things which I think suck about git (I realize 
that many things that have been difficult for me have simply been from 
my lack of knowledge of git, so I don't consider those things sucky, 
they're just things I need to learn; but the following things actually 
do suck):

- A single branch-based 'view' that switches your files around in-place 
as you change which branch you are on, instead of keeping branches in 
separate subdirectories
- Lack of rename tracking.  Yeah, I know, git claims that it can do it 
after the fact when examining change histories but I've tried various 
scenarios and it just doesn't work very well, and even when it does, 
requires stupidly complex options to git commands to enable git to 
discover renames in the history correctly

I think the ideal DVCS would have the semantics of Bazaar, but with the 
speed of git. I think this could be accomplished if Bazaar were written 
in C or C++ instead of Python - having to start up the Python 
interpreter for every single Bazaar command is ... unfortunate.  And 
from what I've read, Bazaar has real performance problems with large 
trees or long histories.

Thanks,
Bryan