Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended for the SQLite author's reasoned case for a different approach to version control, and as an introduction to Fossil.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

southeastlinuxfest

Topic

version control and fossil

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This reminds be of a talk I watched by Richard Hipp, "Git: Just Say No" [0] where he discusses a "top 10 git enhancements" list, as of the time (4 years ago.) It's a good talk, and caused me to discover Fossil SCM. Sadly I've …

• > Take a look at this image and tell me it’s immediately intuitive I'm using Git, there's nothing intuitive to be found here. On a possibly related note, I watched a talk by D. Richard Hipp (I don't remember which one - edit: probably "Richard …

• Here is a (somewhat old) talk by Richard Hipp, the author of SQLite about Git: "Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No" [VIDEO] I use Git every day, but I am curious about Fossil and have been researching it for a while. I am not …