Or just keep two emails - one for registrations on various websites which for some reason require your email,
I use mailinator.com for such sites :)
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@kilroo said:
It's like two groups of people, with each group having an argument with the other group, except neither group is having the same argument that the other group is having back with them...
I see it more like 3 groups:
1) there are people, who have problem, they want to solve, so they make tools to solve the problem (with UI good enought for them) - like Linus with git - and offers the result for free
2) there are people, who say: "Great, I have similar problem, which I can solve with your tools.Thank you. I may even contritribute a little, take this, what helped me better, if you want" - like me
3) there are people who say: "You all are idiots, I want YOU to spend a lot of time for FREE to solve MY problems the way I like to have solved them. No, I will not contribute nothing, it is YOUR work to make ME happy" - like Blakey (with chorus)
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RE: This Slashdot article
@blakeyrat said:
@gilhad said:
It is already usable for intented users. It was not developed for *anybody and his dog* and was not presented as such.
Right. That's the problem.
The only problem is, that YOU are trying to use something, what was not developed for such users as you. It is the same problem, as Excel not working on Raspberry Pi.
@blakeyrat said:
@gilhad said:
As you did not pay for git nothing, you are already given much more, than you paid for.
It's free, so it doesn't matter that it's crap!
It is not crap, it is perfect tool for the work, for which it was constructed. If you do not like it, do not use it. If you want it to use for something, for what it was not intended, then the problem is you, not the tool.
Would you say, that Excel is total crap, because it sucks on editing photos?
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RE: This Slashdot article
@blakeyrat said:
Wouldn't it be great if Git were actually usable, so that *anybody* could do the type of scripting and customization you can?
It is already usable for intented users. It was not developed for *anybody and his dog* and was not presented as such.
If you want some versioning system with GUI only and workflow easy for beginners, who do not read manuals, you are free to write such system.
You even are free to use git code for that, as long as you confirm with it licence (GPL). Or you can pay anybody willing to do it for you. (Or rise foundation and collect mony from others to hire someone like that ... or anything else)
As you did not pay for git nothing, you are already given much more, than you paid for.
Also note, that other GUI tools mentioned here (Excel, Beyond Compare, "some randome GUI renamingutility, that google offered me", ...) do not even offer such possibility of reworking/customizing/forking/rewriting.
As for me - it is easy usable and scriptable for me, so I have no needs to change the git. I make some simple scripts around that and they are free to use (under GPL).
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@dkf said:
Though git will still work correctly with CAD files (and any other structured or binary data you might care to mention). The only real issue is that the default diff — a part of the UI, really — is much better at showing the differences in plain text than in anything else. Use a different difference display strategy and it will work better for CAD files, or whatever.
What I would like is a better GUI for git so that I'm exposed to less of the convention complexities while still having a sane workflow (branches for things being worked on, tags for marking particular states like releases, general sharing of state between a small group of people). Right now, I have to understand way too much of git to work like that…
You are right, but my point was, that git was developed for one concrete purpose and for that purpose works perfectly.
The other thing is, that we (other users than kernel developers) are using it for other purposes, where it works also good, but it is not, for what it was developed. Still we have the right and possibility to change it to our needs, which is much more, that any proprietary GUI tool can offer.
(And as my needs are similar to those of intended user group, I am satisfied with I got (for free) and I do not feel urge to change anything - apart from using .gitconfig for some convenient shortcuts as ci = commit, co = checkout and so, and for some scripts to fit my need of managing ~75 repositories
alias gom='git merge origin/master'
gl() { git log --graph --oneline --decorate=full "$@" |sed "s#refs/[a-z/]*/##g;s#tag: ##g" ; }
and scrit to apply one git command (with params) to all repositories - usual use is "ga fetch", "ga push" "ga status", but also "ga merge origin/master" or others are possible)
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RE: This Slashdot article
@Mason Wheeler said:
I have only seen one, ever, that did not absolutely suck: Beyond Compare.
I am using vim (vimdiff), as I work with textfiles in git and it works good for me.
I looked on Beyond Compare, but (in comparing textfiles) it seems to do the same as vimdiff - maybe there is some difference, I did not seen, but on their pages it was not enhanced.
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@blakeyrat said:
What is the "one thing" a spreadsheet application should do well? And here's a bonus tip: the reason Excel took over this space ion the first place is it started to do things other than simulating a financial spreadsheet well, while its competitors did not.
Excel sucks - it does not run well on my new Raspberry Pi. The authors of Excel are all idiots, because they did write it so, that it would not run smoohtly on this 700MHz ARM procesor.
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RE: This Slashdot article
Git was developed for working with text files and not CAD files just because git was developed to help with developing linux kernel, which source contains lot of text files, but none CAD files.
So there was no reason to work with CAD files.
Also there was no reason to make git in DLL, when it was ment to be used on linux as CLI program.
If you do not like that, you do not have use git at all - it was not developed to please some blakeye rats. (Unless your boss tell you, that you will use it, if you want be payd, because people more important for your company than you decided, that the company will use it - but we all know, that you are in shitty position, where you cannot choose your tools, because nobody think, you are importatnt for your company enought to be allowed so)
So git was developed for some particular reason (developing linux kernel) and proved to be usefull even in other areas, so authors allowed others to use it anywhere the others want. I do not see, why they should add GUI, when they do not need it. All mentioned users (linux kernel developers) use it with CLI, so it is made with CLI in mind.
You got, what you paid for - if you are not satisfied, return git and ask for the money you paid for it. And simply download some GUI program, which can do the same with nice shiny buttons for clicking on. (As you recomended to do instead using the devil "move *.blah *.blah2")
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@blakeyrat said:
[Guess what? If people spend weeks in a cell after being kidnapped, they start to like their kidnappers!
I spend years stuck with Windows and learned to hate Windows to the bones.
Conclusion: Being stuck with Windows is much worse than being kidnapped.