Subversion GUI, maybe in java

[Andrew Thompson]

Chris Uppal wrote:
...

BTW, if you don't mind the question, why /do/ you choose to post via Google ?

At first it was because I lost internet at home and
was using accounts at the library and internet cafe's.

I was also interested to see Google groups 'from the inside'
to check whether my suspicions about it (a web-interface)
creating a 'tunnel vision' view of the usenet newsgroups
was correct (it would perhaps require a lot of words to describe*
exactly what I mean - if anybody seems terribly interested,
I will attempt it). ..and yes, they do create that effect.

* In a few words, contributors that use web-interfaces tend *not*
to soak up tips from other threads in which they have no direct
interest (based on the thread title, mostly).

Ironically (perhaps), I am *continuing* to post through
Google groups (even though my internet is reconnected),
for the moment, mostly because of that 'blinkered' effect -
it is much easier for me to *not* get drawn into unprofitable,
bandwidth wasting arguments with people that appear
'for a few moments', only to vanish back into obscurity/irrelevance..

Ultimately, I think web-interfaces are good for the fact that
they allow people to post through colleges, library, internet
cafe's and such.

They *do* create many problems, and are a poor second
to using a news-reader, but I am glad that they are
available for those with no internet at home (and no ability
to set up a news client at the place they access internet).

Andrew T.

 

[Berlin Brown]

Well, it is definitely harder to /read/ posts in Google; and (judging by most
posters) it's harder to /write/ posts in Google (while conforming to half-way
decent standards).

I'm not convinced that there's all that much left for Google's upside to
exhibit itself in...

BTW, if you don't mind the question, why /do/ you choose to post via Google ?

-- chris

With google groups, the focus/cursor is put at the top of the post,
scrolled to the top, there is a space to top-post.

We could email google and tell them to scroll to the bottom and put the
focus there.

I blame google.

 

[Chris Uppal]

* In a few words, contributors that use web-interfaces tend *not*
to soak up tips from other threads in which they have no direct
interest (based on the thread title, mostly).

I have certainly noticed a stronger tendency than I'm used to for posters to
ask questions which have been discussed only a day to two before. I presume
that's the kind of effect you're thinking of.

I suppse that for a Googler it's like when reading a page of search results:
the idea is to /ignore/ as much as you possibly can.

-- chris

 

[Hendrik Maryns]

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Berlin Brown schreef:

Oh...I got ya. Blah, who cares. Get a life.

Maybe you should care, as you didn’t get an answer to your question
because now everyone is distracted by the top-posting discussion.

I will give you a hint because I like Subversion: to use svn://, you
have to run a local svnserve deamon:

svnserve -d [path of subdir in repo if you want access restriction]

and then you control access by an, incredible but true, not encoded
plain text passwords file. You login like such:

svn://localhost/path/to/project

HTH, H.
- --
Hendrik Maryns

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