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> Other commands like stash, checkout and branch are equally simple Ok, so they are the simple because you say so? Stash in all but the simplest cases is a sur

> Other commands like stash, checkout and branch are equally simple Ok, so they are the simple because you say so? Stash in all but the simplest cases is a sure-fire way to shoot yourself in the foot. Checkout is a weird guy, he does too many different things, and what's up with the double dashes? Super-weird! Also beware that any of your branch names happen to match any of the file names in the repo :O. > I think where people express confusion over git is that they don’t expect to be interact with revision history This is one of the things that confuses beginners about git, but it's not a confusion about git cli. You are conflating the criticism of git cli with criticism of git. Git is good, git cli is (notoriously) bad. However, eventually you'll (hopefully) learn the proper incantations and then using git cli will seem simple to you.

mlthoughts2018 8y ago
I never claimed any of this was anything more than my own technical appraisal / opinion. But to be clear, you’re not offering any counter argument, just unsupported assertions of your different opinion, including things like “what's up with the double dashes?“ which makes it hard for me to believe I could personally find value in your view on it. > “You are conflating the criticism of git cli with criticism of git.” Not at all. I’m saying most of the time when people say they are confused by git cli, that it behaves counter to their expectations, they are not actually expressing any design limitation of the cli commands themselves, but instead blaming cli commands for the conceptual confusion they have about git’s model in general.