Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
You are getting precisely the same thing you got under BitKeeper: pull from X, you get my tree, which was composed from $N repositories. The tree you pull was created by my running 'bk pull' locally $N times.
No. Under BK, you had DIFFERENT TREES.
What does that mean? They had DIFFERENT NAMES.
Which meant that the commit message was MEANINGFUL.
Ok, I'll fix the commit message.
As for different trees, I'm afraid you've written something that is _too useful_ to be used in that manner.
Git has brought with it a _major_ increase in my productivity because I can now easily share ~50 branches with 50 different kernel hackers, without spending all day running rsync. Suddenly my kernel development is a whole lot more _open_ to the world, with a single "./push". And it's awesome.
That wasn't possible before with BitKeeper, just due to sheer network overhead of 50 trees. With BitKeeper, the _only_ thing that kernel hackers and users could get from me is a mush tree with everything merged into a big 'ALL' repository.