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> Git is basically Linus in a nutshell: abrasive, unforgiving, and behaving like an absolute asshole to any non-expert struggling user. You forgot "brilliant".

TickleSteve 10y ago
not necessarily better than most other good engineers... He knows a lot about his domain, sure, but he's no god and there are a lot of areas he knows diddley-squat about.... user interface design for one!
- Singletoned 10y ago
  > He knows a lot about his domain, sure, but he's no god and there are a lot of areas he knows diddley-squat about.... user interface design for one! And Einstein knew nothing about biology. I'm sure he knows "diddley-squat" about most areas, but as long as he knows a lot about his domain then he's an expert. And he is good at user interface design, and git is a good example of that; it's just not aimed at beginners. It was designed by and for expert users, and the interface fits that very well.
  - TickleSteve 10y ago
    no, its not a good UI. admittedly "expert" UIs are different from "noob" UIs, but the number of "git magic spell" followers out there mean that it isn't a good UI for the majority of people who use git.
    - dozzie 10y ago
      Well, if you treat git as Torvalds intended it in the beginning (framework for building VCS-es) and accordingly limit the discussion to git's plumbing command set, you get a sensibly good UI+architecture that is targeted at programmers that write VCS-es. Git being operable with a pry bar and repairable with a hammer is a good proof that in this context it's a good design.
- rakoo 10y ago
  Hah, so just like git then.
- SmellyGeekBoy 10y ago
  I'm not sure why a kernel developer would need to concern themselves with UI design?
ewjordan 10y ago
Fair point. For all my whining, I use both Git and Linux every day, they are incredible pieces of technology, especially compared to what came before.

TickleSteve 10y ago

not necessarily better than most other good engineers... He knows a lot about his domain, sure, but he's no god and there are a lot of areas he knows diddley-squat about.... user interface design for one!

Singletoned 10y ago
> He knows a lot about his domain, sure, but he's no god and there are a lot of areas he knows diddley-squat about.... user interface design for one! And Einstein knew nothing about biology. I'm sure he knows "diddley-squat" about most areas, but as long as he knows a lot about his domain then he's an expert. And he is good at user interface design, and git is a good example of that; it's just not aimed at beginners. It was designed by and for expert users, and the interface fits that very well.
- TickleSteve 10y ago
  no, its not a good UI. admittedly "expert" UIs are different from "noob" UIs, but the number of "git magic spell" followers out there mean that it isn't a good UI for the majority of people who use git.
  - dozzie 10y ago
    Well, if you treat git as Torvalds intended it in the beginning (framework for building VCS-es) and accordingly limit the discussion to git's plumbing command set, you get a sensibly good UI+architecture that is targeted at programmers that write VCS-es. Git being operable with a pry bar and repairable with a hammer is a good proof that in this context it's a good design.
rakoo 10y ago
Hah, so just like git then.
SmellyGeekBoy 10y ago
I'm not sure why a kernel developer would need to concern themselves with UI design?

ewjordan 10y ago

Fair point. For all my whining, I use both Git and Linux every day, they are incredible pieces of technology, especially compared to what came before.