5 ms·
Is it possible to make Git as easy as Dropbox?
by aet 12y ago
Is it possible to make Git as easy as Dropbox?
- cheald 12y agoSure, just remove everything except the "commit", "push", and "pull" commands. But it sure gets a whole lot less useful then.
- jackmaney 12y agoNo, because Dropbox does not support branching and merging.
- Kalium 12y agoYes, provided you're willing to give up all the complex ideas that make git more useful than Dropbox for some things.
- aet 12y agoI imagining a scenario in which I have a team and I have 10% git experts, 90% not -- can I create a system in which they are basically "drop boxing" and the merging etc gets handled automatically or decisioned by an expert? -- Maybe ultimately everyone should just learn git since it isn't that complicated.
- Kalium 12y agoI've been in such a scenario. Making it simple and drool-proof for some people while everyone else works around the consequences of that is not as lovely as it sounds. It winds up being much, much easier to just teach whoever else enough of the basics to use git. It's almost certainly less difficult to use than whatever ERP the company uses.
- loup-vaillant 12y agoProbably: http://tonsky.me/blog/reinventing-git-interface/ http://tonsky.me/blog/reinventing-git-interface/ (And no, you don't have to give up any power).