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Really? Is git really that hard? Please. The man pages are super readable and explain pretty much everything. Nobody's complaining about awk, sed, find, and the
by banachtarski 13y ago
Really? Is git really that hard? Please. The man pages are super readable and explain pretty much everything. Nobody's complaining about awk, sed, find, and the like. Git exhibits functionality on par with those tools and the user should expect a similar degree of complexity.
- Argorak 13y agoThere is an argument to be made that many people dislike sed, awk and find because they are hard to use. Which is fine, because there are other alternatives, thats why the are not complaining. git is a must-use for any software project that uses it. Removing (unnecessary) complexity from it would be a benefit to everyone in the team. The question is what unnecessary is, I find the staging area one of the best features in git, especially as it allows reviewing before commit.
- dscrd 13y agoIt's the little, seemingly unnecessary complications, like http://bitflop.com/document/111 http://bitflop.com/document/111 If there was awk, sed, find which did the same thing but were significantly easier to use, I would complain about them. At least if I was forced to use them.
- banachtarski 13y agoMy point is that you'd be hard pressed to make awk, sed, and find simpler without removing functionality. In the same way, I think git is really compact considering its feature set. The issues like the one you point to in the article occur once in a blue moon.