On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 18:14, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > but aren't > they generally reviled among the progrmaming populace as the most > complex and error-prone part of learning to program? And now you know why people struggle with git; as I said in a previous email: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=124022418313288&w=2 I think that the human brain struggles with indirection. Consider that so many programmers have a hard time understanding pointers; no wonderso many people find git's underlying concepts boggling. Of course, the difference here is that we're not asking people to do memory management; we have garbage collection. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html