Re: [Boost-users] What's happened to Ryppl?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] What's happened to Ryppl?
From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-30 02:36:27

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> AMDG
>
> On 1/29/2011 1:50 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Steven Watanabe<watanabesj_at_[hidden]>
>> Â wrote:
>>>>
>>>> And having multiple maintainers maintaining a single "canonical" git
>>>> repo is the sweetest thing ever. Merging changes from many different
>>>> sources into a single "master" is actually *fun* as opposed to painful
>>>> with a centralized VCS.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What does this have to do with whether the
>>> repository is centralized or distributed?
>>
>> The fact that you can quickly try doing it several different ways
>> without affecting the "official repo" is a big plus.
>
> I don't understand. Â Quickly try doing what?
>

The merge.

>> There's no
>> reason anyone should take my word for this, but I didn't really "get
>> it" about DVCSes until I actually tried using Git for a while.
>> Something about it changes the user experience drastically in ways
>> that are simply not obvious until you've gotten used to it.
>>

+1 to Dave's statement above.

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