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whoknowsidont | 11 days ago

>I don't buy this.

It's not really debatable. Git flow came about because of SVN / CVS practices and was the first and for many still is THE branching model they use.

>Yet all of us have been using Git for ages

You say "all of us" but then you completely ignore the primary branching model the vast, vast majority of people use on Git.

Just for the record, this isn't being stated in support of git-flow it's just a historical fact that's not really debatable.

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ncphillips|11 days ago

> the primary branching model the vast, vast majority of people use on Git.

> it's just a historical fact that's not really debatable.

Over my last 15 years of software dev, I have _never_ heard of anyone actually using Gitflow in their codebase.

I'm not saying you're wrong. My experience is anecdotal. But I don't know why you say it's a "fact". Was there surveys or anything?

zamalek|11 days ago

I'm not questioning your experience, but how "enterprise" is that experience? Gitflow was no small part of my convincing my company to move off TFVC. I doubt they still use, but it was shallow waters for scared folk.

I strongly doubt that my story, just as much as yours, is unique.

throwaway150|11 days ago

> It's not really debatable.

Very weird for you to start a reply like this when we are literally debating it.

> You say "all of us"

Yes, I mean those of who don't use git-flow. That's what I meant by "all of us".

> ignore the primary branching model the vast, vast majority of people use on Git.

Do you live in a git-flow bubble or what? I've been using VCS since the dark ages of CVS. Moved to SVN. Mercurial. Git. Never worked in a team using git-flow. Never used git-flow myself. Never met anyone IRL who uses git-flow. I only read about these things on HN and blogs.

What kind of stats do you have to claim that this is the primary branching model. If I go by my experience, it's a minority branching model that only people living within the bubble care about.

> it's just a historical fact that's not really debatable.

What is a historical fact? That people use git-flow. Nobody is contesting that. What I am contesting is that the success of Git is not connected to git-flow like the grand-grand-parent comment said.

whoknowsidont|11 days ago

I'm not debating it... we're not debating it. You're having it explained to you.

>If I go by my experience

That would be the very definition of a bubble.