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We have barely technical people on the team who use GitHub for Mac because they aren't comfortable in a CLI, but they are very comfortable using a regular appli
by ianstormtaylor 12y ago
We have barely technical people on the team who use GitHub for Mac because they aren't comfortable in a CLI, but they are very comfortable using a regular application they can launch from their doc. That way GitHub gets to design around Git edge cases, and they don't have to get screwed when weird things happen in the CLI.
- timr 12y agoYeah, that's the classic argument for wrapping a CLI with a GUI. The only problem is that with git, you can't design around the "weird things"...if the user is in a weird state in version control, they need to know about it. In other words, it's the leaky abstraction problem. You can pretty up the UI, but ultimately, you have to communicate the concept to the user. It's how we got those "Can I copy The Internet?" questions in Windows 95....