Re:What git is not
by davidw on Friday February 20, 2009 @03:28PM
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I started with cvs, years ago, moved on to subversion when it was good and stable, and am now starting to fiddle with git. I like it a lot, but it is "fiddly" feeling. I'm sorry I can't describe it better than that, but it's just a feeling I get from it. Maybe this covers it: I don't get the feeling that it's going to much effort to "make the easy things simple and the hard things possible". We know it can do the latter, but the former is not always true.
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"make the easy things simple and the hard things possible"
Well, it's Git, not Perl :)
I like it a lot, but it is "fiddly" feeling.
To assuage this feeling, I recommend reading the source code for both Git and Subversion. After you realize the flaky shoestring-and-chewing-gum model that holds all your data in subversion, you won't worry at all about Git's UI :)
Re:What git is not
by allenbrunson on Friday February 20, 2009 @09:34PM
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i agree with this. i'm very happy with svn. my one foray into git was when i was working on somebody else's project on github, and i got a vague uneasy feeling about it. for one thing, the output it prints to the terminal seems needlessly complex and verbose.