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That would be really nice. I think there is definitely room for version control for people who are less in the programming realm or who work on personal project

That would be really nice. I think there is definitely room for version control for people who are less in the programming realm or who work on personal projects that have a more creative art flavour (writers, desingers, etc). The user interface of Git is too frustrating for these types. Even as a mathematician and somewhat-programmer I dislike Git a lot. Rebase, blame, stash...ugghhh. Although Git is nice I liked Subversion better.

tokamak-teapot 4y ago
Have you used Mercurial? I found it a lot more user friendly, especially with TortoiseHg for Windows. Not sure if that’s still around as I don’t use Windows any more but even though there are many similarities, git always feels like it’s designed to solve problems I don’t want to use source control to solve.
- muxator 4y ago
  TortoiseHg is still maintained and works both on windows (no direct experience) and linux. The development happens on its mailing list, but there is also an Heptapod (a gitlab fork modified to also support mercurial) instance here: https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/tortoisehg https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/tortoisehg Interesting enough, almost all my work nowadays consists of interacion with git remotes. But my local clone has always been mercurial via hg-git.
- vouaobrasil 4y ago
  I'll give it a try, thanks!
eternityforest 4y ago
Non-programmers aren't going to want any CLI version control, and git-cola plus meld is perfectly fine for simple use cases as long as nobody force pushes or uses a submodule or something like that. Although usually what seems to happen is people only use one linear history and never branch anything. I'm not sure if that's because Git is hard, or just because nobody wants to learn about branches and stuff in any system if they don't have to. In any case it works perfectly fine and is an amazing step up compared to no VCS.
stavros 4y ago
The user interface to git is too frustrating for everyone. Most of us just have Stockholm syndrome by now.

tokamak-teapot 4y ago

Have you used Mercurial? I found it a lot more user friendly, especially with TortoiseHg for Windows. Not sure if that’s still around as I don’t use Windows any more but even though there are many similarities, git always feels like it’s designed to solve problems I don’t want to use source control to solve.

muxator 4y ago
TortoiseHg is still maintained and works both on windows (no direct experience) and linux. The development happens on its mailing list, but there is also an Heptapod (a gitlab fork modified to also support mercurial) instance here: https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/tortoisehg https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/tortoisehg Interesting enough, almost all my work nowadays consists of interacion with git remotes. But my local clone has always been mercurial via hg-git.
vouaobrasil 4y ago
I'll give it a try, thanks!

eternityforest 4y ago

Non-programmers aren't going to want any CLI version control, and git-cola plus meld is perfectly fine for simple use cases as long as nobody force pushes or uses a submodule or something like that. Although usually what seems to happen is people only use one linear history and never branch anything. I'm not sure if that's because Git is hard, or just because nobody wants to learn about branches and stuff in any system if they don't have to. In any case it works perfectly fine and is an amazing step up compared to no VCS.

stavros 4y ago

The user interface to git is too frustrating for everyone. Most of us just have Stockholm syndrome by now.