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> But the reason git beat out the competition isn't git's excellent UI or large marketing budget, it's that those features actually provide significant value.
by Xylakant 10y ago
> But the reason git beat out the competition isn't git's excellent UI or large marketing budget, it's that those features actually provide significant value.
I tend to think that the reason git beat out the competition is github. It was the first VCS hosting service that actually provided a sane UI that enabled non-vcs-experts to at least observe what's happening. github doesn't provide an interface to a lot of gits features and so do the github-provided native clients, but they are sufficient for at least 50% of the population that I know. Many people don't know and/or don't care about all the other power_features that git provides.
- StavrosK 10y agoRelatedly, how awful is Launchpad? I can never get anything done there. It's as if they got the most brilliant UI designers and told them to make something completely unusable. I cannot believe a UI this confusing and opaque was made by mistake. I regularly end up navigating around in circles looking for the thing everyone wants most in a repo: The code.
- alphapapa 10y agoAre they really so brilliant then? Seriously though, I think Launchpad was designed less for managing code and more for managing a bureaucratic project. While individuals and projects can use it, it's primarily only useful for Ubuntu and their particular workflows.