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>Why... Because lots of people don't want to learn git. They want to bungle through it the same way they bungle through most of the software they touch. Peop

>Why... Because lots of people don't want to learn git. They want to bungle through it the same way they bungle through most of the software they touch. People who work with software professionally are very adept at bungling. Even through complicated professional software that other users would need training for. But git is resistant. Even rote memorization won't let you hide completely from learning git. There's a steep learning curve before you can half-ass it. Depending on perspective this is either a damning indictment of git, or just another day at the office. I've been helping people learn git for over a decade now. Unironically the easiest to teach are interns.

dmz73 5y ago
I am using git as a version control system via Tortoise GIT which does a great job of exposing the minimum required functionality of git (maybe a bit more than minimum) and it is only when something goes wrong or I need advanced features that I have to fall back on git command line. So 99.99% of the time I use 10% of git functionality. Even if I did learn all of git (and I doubt there are many people that can make that claim), I would probably forget most of it by the next time I needed to use a particular feature. The main thing that should be explained at the start of any git related tutorial is how git handles the full workflow (from remote to local to work copy and back) because that is one thing that is missing but once you know it the rest becomes easy to understand.
flohofwoe 5y ago
> Because lots of people don't want to learn git. The thing is that something as trivial as version control should not require that much learning. Pretty much all version control systems other than git had already achieved that (by not providing such a vast "feature surface"). Of course this isn't exactly git's fault. It was developed specifically for Linux kernel developers, not (for instance) for artists on a game development team. The problem is that nowadays, people start to get the impression that git is the only version control system, and want to use it for things it wasn't designed for.
- toopok4k3 5y ago
  Version control contains problems that are not trivial. Git exposes the right parts of the problems and conflicts for the user, that are in no way trivial for a computer and require human decisions on what should be done with them.
  - michaelcampbell 5y ago
    For SOME projects, that rely on a truly distributed model. Most don't. Most at GITHUB don't. It's why they use github.

dmz73 5y ago

I am using git as a version control system via Tortoise GIT which does a great job of exposing the minimum required functionality of git (maybe a bit more than minimum) and it is only when something goes wrong or I need advanced features that I have to fall back on git command line. So 99.99% of the time I use 10% of git functionality. Even if I did learn all of git (and I doubt there are many people that can make that claim), I would probably forget most of it by the next time I needed to use a particular feature. The main thing that should be explained at the start of any git related tutorial is how git handles the full workflow (from remote to local to work copy and back) because that is one thing that is missing but once you know it the rest becomes easy to understand.

flohofwoe 5y ago

> Because lots of people don't want to learn git. The thing is that something as trivial as version control should not require that much learning. Pretty much all version control systems other than git had already achieved that (by not providing such a vast "feature surface"). Of course this isn't exactly git's fault. It was developed specifically for Linux kernel developers, not (for instance) for artists on a game development team. The problem is that nowadays, people start to get the impression that git is the only version control system, and want to use it for things it wasn't designed for.

toopok4k3 5y ago
Version control contains problems that are not trivial. Git exposes the right parts of the problems and conflicts for the user, that are in no way trivial for a computer and require human decisions on what should be done with them.
- michaelcampbell 5y ago
  For SOME projects, that rely on a truly distributed model. Most don't. Most at GITHUB don't. It's why they use github.