- Seems driven primarily by wanting a BSD licensed option. The OpenBSD folks are very talented but are also very ideologically driven. I'm not sure this will get a lot of attention but it is nice seeing another option.
- Yes and no, my experience with it is that it is trying to be a minimal Git format-compatible tool that conforms with the coding style and practices of the OpenBSD community, along with their style of development: patches onto mailing lists. It is likely the hope of its developers that it would be included into OpenBSD base at some point. So, true, the license is a part of it, but one part of many.
There is also this:
- The goals page also implies it is intended to adapt to more OpenBSD filesystem permissions model things, which aren't as important in Linux or cross-platform development (git's intended environments).
- i assume you are talking about the things mentioned here: https://www.gameoftrees.org/comparison.html
more applications making use of linux capabilities to restrict access would be nice though.
- I was reading more into this specific in the project goals:
> Consistently use pledge(2) and unveil(2) across the code base.
Both link to man pages that seem rather OpenBSD-specific to me. Seems an interesting requirement/goal, but I'm afraid I don't know enough OpenBSD-specifics to know much more about why this is a goal or what the project gains from having it as a goal even if I can appreciate it as a goal that certainly seems unlikely to upstream into git itself.
(ETA: Which yeah, it does seem like the Comparisons page includes some of that reasoning, but not well enough I caught on first skim and I'm still not sure I understand it on second reading, but interesting.)
- > along with their style of development: patches onto mailing lists
I mean that's also Git's style of development.
- The web site is seven years old, and the project nine and a half years. So this isn’t anything new.
- Sounds cool.
What should we call the magit equivalent for got? Magot? Maggot?
- if you only got git then you should git got. ;-) (works best with an australian or new zealand accent)
- "Another one? Why not ...?" - https://www.gameoftrees.org/goals.html
- If you are wondering why Got even exists, you can just ignore it.
57 points by gregnavis 9 hours ago | 11 comments