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by discojesus 6127 days ago
shrug Eric Sink said it himself: "DVCS's and git are conceptually much harder than tools like Subversion"

personally, I agree with him, and given that the issue at hand is "what should this guy start out with to gain the habit of using version control" and not "what is the most awesome version control system ever where you could just imagine a merge and it does it for you while you're on an airplane using a hand-cranked One Laptop Per Child", I think conceptual ease is what we're really going for here.
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calambrac 6127 days ago
Eric Sink, author of a competing non-distributed version control system?
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discojesus 6127 days ago
Eric Sink, author of a competing non-distributed version control system?

yeah he's only interested in promoting Vault. Except he didn't mention Vault at all during that exchange on DVCS - he only mentioned Subversion as an alternative non-distributed version control system, and he said that DVCS systems were definitely going to be the norm in the future. So, uh, no. :)

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calambrac 6127 days ago
I didn't say he was only interested in promoting Vault, or that he was being dishonest. Conflict of interest doesn't have to be some evil shadowy plot. Given that he's spent years working on his system and convincing himself it's The Right Way, DVCS probably is more difficult conceptually to him. That doesn't make him bad or a shill, it just means you shouldn't necessarily take his word as the authority for vcs newcomers.

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-authority...

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