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You can no longer afford not to take Git seriously

16 points by zachwill 14y ago

recursive 14y ago
As one of the corporate developers mentioned in the blog post, I had recently independently been getting the feeling that I will not be able to avoid learning git much longer. Some open source packages I've used go as far as only providing links to github without direct downloads. So far, every time I end up on github, I feel completely lost. This must be what getting left behind feels like.
- cheald 14y ago
  Learning enough git to get by takes all of 5 minutes. There's little excuse to not learn it from a consumer perspective these days.
  - recursive 14y ago
    To be literal about it, as far as I can tell, it takes at least 5 minutes to figure out which version of git to install. So far msys send seems to be winning.
- simula67 14y ago
  Github allows direct downloads: https://github.com/<path_to_repo>/zipball/<branch&#62 https://github.com/<path_to_repo>/zipball/<branc...;
anusinha 14y ago
Git is amazing but I take issue with GitHub. The point of Git is that it's a distributed and decentralized version control system and GitHub gets rid of the decentralized part of that. That is counter to what Git was designed for.
- cheald 14y ago
  Github doesn't compromise the distributed nature of git. It makes it easier to use it as a traditional client-server SCM, but you can treat Github as just another remote (and I often do!) For people coming from client-server SCMs, I think Github is a really important transition step, and frankly, as an open source developer and consumer, it's really nice that there's a popular publish/find-stuff hub.
- georgemcbay 14y ago
  GitHub (and the Mac/Windows clients they publish that work against non-Github git repos as well as GitHub ones) is probably a huge part of the reason Git has 27.6% of the "market" in the first place. In fact, I think the blog post here reaches the wrong conclusion, in that everything he thought about using git is actually (still) true, but it is widely successful anyway because of other projects (mostly related directly to GitHub) which hide the complexity of git from the "9-5" developers.

16 points by zachwill 14y ago

As one of the corporate developers mentioned in the blog post, I had recently independently been getting the feeling that I will not be able to avoid learning git much longer. Some open source packages I've used go as far as only providing links to github without direct downloads. So far, every time I end up on github, I feel completely lost. This must be what getting left behind feels like.

cheald 14y ago
Learning enough git to get by takes all of 5 minutes. There's little excuse to not learn it from a consumer perspective these days.
- recursive 14y ago
  To be literal about it, as far as I can tell, it takes at least 5 minutes to figure out which version of git to install. So far msys send seems to be winning.
simula67 14y ago
Github allows direct downloads: https://github.com/<path_to_repo>/zipball/<branch&#62 https://github.com/<path_to_repo>/zipball/<branc...;

anusinha 14y ago

Git is amazing but I take issue with GitHub. The point of Git is that it's a distributed and decentralized version control system and GitHub gets rid of the decentralized part of that. That is counter to what Git was designed for.

cheald 14y ago
Github doesn't compromise the distributed nature of git. It makes it easier to use it as a traditional client-server SCM, but you can treat Github as just another remote (and I often do!) For people coming from client-server SCMs, I think Github is a really important transition step, and frankly, as an open source developer and consumer, it's really nice that there's a popular publish/find-stuff hub.
georgemcbay 14y ago
GitHub (and the Mac/Windows clients they publish that work against non-Github git repos as well as GitHub ones) is probably a huge part of the reason Git has 27.6% of the "market" in the first place. In fact, I think the blog post here reaches the wrong conclusion, in that everything he thought about using git is actually (still) true, but it is widely successful anyway because of other projects (mostly related directly to GitHub) which hide the complexity of git from the "9-5" developers.