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Personally, the problems I have with git are related to the fact that none of my coworkers use git. If I mess up my repo I don't have anyone to look for. The ex
by arunc 9y ago
Personally, the problems I have with git are related to the fact that none of my coworkers use git. If I mess up my repo I don't have anyone to look for. The experience with mercurial is exactly the opposite. I never needed to look for "experts" to solve a problem in mercurial. hg help is all I needed. Consistent UX and safe and powerful VCS is all we need.
- pritambaral 9y ago> I never needed to look for "experts" to solve a problem in mercurial. hg help is all I needed. Git has good documentation too. As long as we're doing personal experience, here's mine: I learned git from `git help` too (well, `git --help` and `git <command> --help`), and I never needed to look for a git expert in my team for advanced operations; I did have to be one for others quite a few times , but when it wasn't an immediate, pressing concern I could just point to the appropriate manual.
- 3minus1 9y agoDoes anyone who's downvoting this comment care to explain why?
- masklinn 9y agoI did not downvote the parent comment but I find > Git has good documentation too. hilarious. Git has a sprawling mess of disorganised man pages. I find calling that "good documentation" insulting to people who care about documenting things.
- dboreham 9y agoBecause git dies not have good documentation. Perhaps that's unfair to the documentation in that it does a good job of detailing commands and their options, but is urinating into a hurricane as far as trying to convey any notion of conceptual integrity for a piece of software that has none.
- littlestymaar 9y agoWhat about https://git-scm.com/doc https://git-scm.com/doc ? I wish all the software I use had a documentation half as good as this one.
- masklinn 9y agoI guess low expectations are still expectations?