Re:How Microsoft Office Moved from Source Depot to Git
by throwaway2037 on Sunday June 15, 2025 @09:04PM
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In 2025, source code version control is incredibly complex. Hell, it was already complex 15 years ago, but the tools were probably worse! Have you ever seen the full manual for GCC/Clang? It is nuts. FFmpeg is legendary hard to use from the command line (no hate on Fabrice Bellard -- you still the man). Same for ImageMagick. I don't fault Git for it. If you want fine-grained control over every single possible action... well, you will wind up with a command line tool with an insane number of options.
It's a generalisation, but, by and large, artists and designers don't enjoy using these sorts of tools. Also, they are more likely to be working with unmergeable files, something that git isn't really designed to work with.
(Programmers often don't like these sorts of tools either, but - again, a generalisation - they're harder to avoid if you're a programmer, so the average one is typically a bit more practised at putting up with this crap.)