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|    D to Salvador Mirzo    |
|    Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope     |
|    21 Feb 25 10:29:14    |
      From: nospam@example.net              On Thu, 20 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:              >> This is the truth. I'm a contrarian kind of guy, so when the world       >> goes git, I go fossil. ;) Jokes aside, I like the concept of one       >> binary and how it works for my own personal use case.       >       > I went fossil when I had to teach a class. I thought git was more       > complicated than fossil. But it turns out that fossil was seen as       > crazily complicated by nearly all students (anyway). I think fossil is       > just fine, though I confess I prefer the file system over a database.              This is very interesting! What was it that the student thought was crazy       complicated compared with git?              I have taught classes with git (basics) and at the end of the day, regardless       of       if you use git or fossil, it just requires a few simple commands to get started       at the basic level (we were not discussing rebasing and huge software       projects).              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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