Git-SIM: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos with a single termi

Re:Git-SIM: Visually simulate Git operations in your own rep... by cdcarter on Sunday January 22, 2023 @03:39PM (#34481982)

My company is currently transitioning from a 20+ year old Perforce depot to a git workflow. We're certainly having issues like you describe, where people don't know (and don't care to learn) the mechanics of git. And I agree, git is the kind of tool where once you understand the primitives, you can quickly start making lateral leaps to solve problems.

But I do think that there's room for a better mechanism for orchestrating "macros" or building other workflows on top of git. I know a lot of developers who'd love the ability to pretend they're using p4.

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Re:Git-SIM: Visually simulate Git operations in your own rep... by lumb63 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @06:27PM (#34483496)

My company wanted to "script away" all the "pain" of using Git to make it equivalent to Clearcase. I think it's a smell. If you want to use Clearcase, use Clearcase. etc.

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Re:Git-SIM: Visually simulate Git operations in your own rep... by ziml77 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:39PM (#34485533)

I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. Using scripts to change how devs interact with git is just putting a new porcelain on the plumbing.

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Re:Git-SIM: Visually simulate Git operations in your own rep... by gdprrrr on Monday January 23, 2023 @02:57AM (#34486510)

Except you now have a set of tools without proper documentation and no way of googlng issues. And chances are you created a new leaky abstraction.

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