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I completely agree. It always baffles me how something so simple (yes, simple!) as version control can end up as the abomination that is git. After controlling
by emsy 5y ago
I completely agree. It always baffles me how something so simple (yes, simple!) as version control can end up as the abomination that is git. After controlling for popularity, you don’t see nearly as much posts explaining subversion in detail, and subversion being centralized is neither the only nor the biggest reason for that.
- gallier2 5y agoNo, version control is not simple, never was. git was the first vcs that didn't suck because it was the first tool that understood the nature of the problem. All others were ass backward and instead of solving the problem stood in the way and actively made things worse.
- mikeyjk 5y agoWhat VCS system is simpler? I've used mercurial, svn and git, and git seems the far easier of that sample space.
- baq 5y agoWow, I’d never call version control simple. Actually it’s fiendishly hard. Git makes some simplifications (!) to make the problem more tractable.
- crooked-v 5y agoGit's basic problem is that it has a really a good model for the data, but a really terrible CLI.