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> git is extremely powerful and is, buried underneath its abysmal UI, a thoughtful and elegant work of engineering. However, as a product it's incredibly diffic
by adharmad 13y ago
> git is extremely powerful and is, buried underneath its abysmal UI, a thoughtful and elegant work of engineering. However, as a product it's incredibly difficult to explain to other people. Until you've invested a thoroughly unnecessary amount of time learning its gotchas, quirks, and vagaries it is a monumental pain in the ass to use.
To some extent, the same arguments can be used by newbies against any powerful tool (such as vim).
- shawnz 13y agoAs far as I am concerned, the gap in power between git and hg is much smaller than the gap in ease of use. The ease-of-use argument is only countered when there is real value to using the more frustrating alternative, and I'm not sure there is with git (besides the existence of GitHub, and the support of Linus Torvalds).