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I'll bite, what makes a version control system empathetic?

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• afarrell 8y ago
  The long answer to your question is essentially the entire field of Developer Experience Design, but good intros to it are this Joel Splosky post: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/10/controlling-your-environment-makes-you-happy/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/10/controlling-your-e... And this talk at pyTexas: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-vZ_E1OO_PY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-vZ_E1OO_PY I think git does have some significant design warts but I think when we use the word ‘empathy’ in this context, we should remember that we are referring to a skill not some innate quality that makes someone more or less human.