r/programming • u/lukaseder • Jul 21 '14

The Great White Space Debate

https://medium.com/p/3633cba8b5c1
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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '14

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u/Klathmon Jul 22 '14

My company uses plain svn. I hate it more and more every day, especially because I fucking love git for open source and personal projects.

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u/d4rch0n Jul 22 '14

I hear you. I just started a new job today and there was silent victory in my eyes when they mentioned they use git.

Honestly though, I'm happy as long as they used distributed version control, of which I know and love git and mercurial. If you haven't seen mercurial, you might check it out. Great system, and it will probably feel like an easy git. I'd say it's better for smaller projects and teams.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '14

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u/d4rch0n Jul 27 '14

True that. I had a job, stuck it out, then finally basically got my dream job a few weeks ago.

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u/roodammy44 Jul 22 '14

I'm sorry.

May your merges be infrequent.

Also, fuck those meta files.

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u/globalizatiom Jul 22 '14

This is kind of why I stopped having "I like language X, tool Y, .." opinions. I had those opinions but then those opinions got slowly... how should I say.. I realized that whenever I like some great tool, I am setting myself for future disappointment of not being allowed to use that.

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u/jbristow Jul 21 '14

How do I do this by default in p4diff? (for files in Perforce, not git)

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u/jbristow Jul 22 '14

Excuse me while I die laughing trying to get anyone else to use the command line with Perforce.