Write yourself a Git (2018)

Re:Write yourself a Git (2018) by neals on Thursday March 14, 2019 @08:06AM (#19388438)

I think this is a large majority of Git users. The last company I worked at had 30 good developers, 1 of which I think really deeply understood git.

So I guess 97% of users don't really get git.

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Re:Write yourself a Git (2018) by cabalamat on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:55PM (#19395117)

> The last company I worked at had 30 good developers, 1 of which I think really deeply understood git.

I think this is really damning. Developers understand complex languages/compilers like C++, Python, Java, etc, all of which have a good deal more intrinsic complexity than a VCS. So if a VCS isn't understood, it is badly designed.

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Re:Write yourself a Git (2018) by frosted-flakes on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:45PM (#19402881)

It's because it's so opaque and inconsistent. If git was a program like Microsoft Word, where every available action is easily discoverable and the current state is obvious, then it wouldn't be so bad. Something like what Nikita Tonsky wrote in an article called "Reinventing Git Interface"[0], which has a lot of good ideas.

[0] http://tonsky.me/blog/reinventing-git-interface/

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