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Git is designed for code and is terrible/overcomplex for words. A proper vcs for documentation is what Wikipedia does. You always see the latest version of a
by anonyme-honteux 3y ago
Git is designed for code and is terrible/overcomplex for words.
A proper vcs for documentation is what Wikipedia does.
You always see the latest version of a document and you can see the changes to that document, revert and follow renames.
No global history, no commits of multiple files, no manual pull/push, no branches, no CI, no pr, no rewrite of history, no multiple remotes, etc etc etc
- ivanjermakov 3y ago> Git is designed for code and is terrible/overcomplex for words I think this is not git problem, rather diff tool it's using? Wonder if using another one, e.g. difftastic[1] would be a better experience. [1]: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
- BeFlatXIII 3y agoI wonder how difftastic would handle a paragraph that got reflowed via a gqip command. Would it show almost every word as changed or only the changed words and ignore the fact that many others now reside on different lines?
- petepete 3y agoIf you teach a beginner to use GitHub Desktop lots of the complexities you mention above are smoothed over. The PR/MR is the biggest win, being able to comment on, discuss, suggest, resolve and 'sign off' changes works better in a PR/MR than any other versioned tool I've seen.