Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)
by baud147258 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @09:00AM
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The fact that you put Git in the same category as tools having a potential of inflicting grievous bodily harm if misused is telling. And why does Git require this whereas other VCS don't? Mercurial was incredibly easy to use nearly right out of the gate, not after an afternoon of work.
> The fact that you put Git in the same category as tools having a potential of inflicting grievous bodily harm if misused is telling.
They're just examples of tools.
> Mercurial was incredibly easy to use nearly right out of the gate, not after an afternoon of work.
I talk about this elsewhere in this thread, but I disagree with this assertion. I find Mercurial baffling and Git very elegant, though it could be an artifact of the order in which I learned the tools.
> And why does Git require this whereas other VCS don't?
It doesn't. It just works better when you take the time to learn how it works. (Which is an experience I commonly have with the tools I use, for whatever that's worth.)
Yeah. Take an afternoon to read through gittutorial(7), gittutorial-2(7), and gitcore-tutorial(7). Git is a tool, and just like any other tool (car, tablesaw), you will be much better off if you take the time to learn to use it properly. Once you see "The Matrix" behind Git, it becomes an incredibly easy to use and flexible tool for managing source code and other plaintext files.