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> It'd be so much better to just be able to click "I'm working on a new feature" and "I'm done with the new feature." Maybe, but it might instead be better to

> It'd be so much better to just be able to click "I'm working on a new feature" and "I'm done with the new feature." Maybe, but it might instead be better to ask people to invest a small amount of time in learning to use tools that make them more effective at doing their job. "I'm working on a new feature" and "I'm done with the new feature" are, sadly, not actually expressive enough concepts to deal with the problem. Syncing files with FTP is pretty much at the same conceptual level as "Use Dropbox". Git solves problems significantly more complicated than "I'm working on a new feature / I'm done working on a new feature". EDIT: when I say "conceptual level", I mean, "what you do with it", not "how easy it is to use". Obviously, Dropbox is more usable than FTP. My claim is that Git provides a much different level of power than "I'm working on a feature/I'm done with a feature", which is not a sufficiently expressive concept to deal with software development.

RaphiePS 13y ago
> Syncing files with FTP is pretty much at the same conceptual level as "Use Dropbox". I disagree. My mom loves Dropbox -- she just sticks a file in a folder like she always does and it's magically synced. If she were to use FTP, she'd have to set up a server, remember login credentials or find her public key, and grab an FTP client. And not every client supports automatic syncing either, so she might have to manually trigger a sync. Of course, FTP has way more power and flexibility than Dropbox, just like git vs <proposed VCS>. If your workflow is especially complicated, I'm sure all the git functionality comes in handy and an abstraction would be a hindrance. But most workflows, I'd argue, don't need all the plumbing.