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Code management, code versioning and code fixing are all hard problems. You can't in all cases put a simple tool/thing in front of it and fix it. Sometimes hard

Code management, code versioning and code fixing are all hard problems. You can't in all cases put a simple tool/thing in front of it and fix it. Sometimes hard things are just that, hard. Also; git isn't meant for your "average" use case. People sometimes attempt to get content writers or other non-technical skills into git. It never works. There are far better tools purpose built for those use cases. Developers want tools that work, git works. Why would we try to make it better?

jjav 6y ago
> Sometimes hard things are just that, hard. Mercurial is proof that one can have a good scs with a usable CLI.
marty-oehme 6y ago
> People sometimes attempt to get content writers or other non-technical skills into git. It never works. There are far better tools purpose built for those use cases. Do you have an example of a tool like this? When writing for academia, as long as I produce content on my own everything is fine. But finding a good way for collaboration with versioning has been really hard for me so far. (without resorting to google docs)