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As a long-time TA for the class leading up to 15-410 (almost as long as he's been a student at CMU) I can firmly attest to the fact that we have done absolutely

As a long-time TA for the class leading up to 15-410 (almost as long as he's been a student at CMU) I can firmly attest to the fact that we have done absolutely nothing to make him aware of centralized version control (or distributed version control...) :) So basically, he's got the freshest possible eyes to make this judgement, and if your counterclaim is that he hasn't truly grokked it yet, then that suggests that it may be counterintuitive. Additional fairness: the project in question is a 6-week round-the-clock code fest. Writing a kernel from scratch takes forever. (Is this project just a waste of time? Having moved on to poking at the Linux kernel and stuff, I'd say almost certainly, but that's a topic for another conversation.) Most Sincerely, Alex "Found out the hard way that reset != revert" Gartrell

theli0nheart 17y ago
> if your counterclaim is that he hasn't truly grokked it yet, then that suggests that it may be counterintuitive. Or proper usage wasn't explained to him correctly.
- wmcc 17y ago
  Since we learn from the online docs, doesn't your statement imply that Gits online documentation isn't very good?
  - pyre 17y ago
    > Since we learn from the online docs That's an assumption.
    - mcn 17y ago
      wmcc stated he was in the same OS class as the blog poster.
jshen 17y ago
" if your counterclaim is that he hasn't truly grokked it yet, then that suggests that it may be counterintuitive." You should say, "it may be counterintuitive to him". Intuition is based on past experiences and our internal metaphors. We have no reason to believe that his "intuition" is the same as most of the population that would use git.