Re:Geek rants on git
by cratermoon on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @01:50PM
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It took me a while to come around, but now I'm so sure that git won't lose anything I am much more willing to try things I don't quite understand than I ever was with any other version control. Yes, sometimes recovering can involve some opaque incantations, but I know whatever I wanted is still there.
But, two things:
The author is, of course wrong about git vs svn safety. Once you really know git, it is more forgiving than anything else. Almost all mistakes are recoverable. Not so for svn.
The author is right about git having a usability problem. Git is hard to learn. I'm sure some of us had the same initial reaction. Personally, I'd love to see someone put a gui skin on git that uses different terminology, picks the most newbie friendly defaults, and makes the workflows easier. P4v, for example, is easier to use than Sourcetree or Tower or other GUIs that basically only give you menu options for the things git does. Not saying that p4v is the awesomest, but I've watched artists manage with p4v, and artists largely don't in git.