you are correct. its popularity is an advantage, and this is precisely why i would want to use git - so many people are familiar with it and it almost seems lik

you are correct. its popularity is an advantage, and this is precisely why i would want to use git - so many people are familiar with it and it almost seems like the standard solution today for source control. but its still worrying to me for its popularity. either i am fantastically stupid or people are happily using a tool without any idea what they are doing or how to resolve what i consider to be a very standard source control problem. these are both things for me to worry about. if you are wondering what i had such a hard time with here is a trivialised example: http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com/2013/11/why-i-hate-git.html http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com/2013/11/why-i-hate-git.html even if this problem is solvable and there is a solution this is a perfectly good way to approach problem solving - the problem is the lack of quality documentation and source materials to research a solution from.