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> Git is a notoriously user-hostile piece of software Then you probably didn't use any SCCS before git. Because CVS is even uglier, Bitkeeper is the reason Lin
by josefonseca 14y ago
> Git is a notoriously user-hostile piece of software
Then you probably didn't use any SCCS before git. Because CVS is even uglier, Bitkeeper is the reason Linus wrote git and every other I tried was more "user-hostile" than git.
> pretty much the only thing it has going for it on the usability front is Github.
You sound like a Visual Basic programmer who just saw C for the first time.
Edit: Bitkeeper, not bucket!
- delroth 14y agoBitkeeper. Bitbucket (and Mercurial) did not exist when Linus started writing Git.
- josefonseca 14y agoI stand corrected.
- llimllib 14y agough, stop the name calling. Surely you mean that bitkeeper is the reason Linus wrote git. Bitbucket didn't exist when he did.
- wglb 14y agoBut RCS was a little better. In fact, i think that project invented the reverse diff