On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Wincent Colaiuta <win@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We should smooth out these road-bumps (in so far as we can, with respect to backward compatibility and such) rather than just hand-waving them away saying that they are a natural consequence of demolishing the CVS world view and replacing it with something better. That's not true at all; mistakes _were_ made with the terminology, and unfortunately we have to live with some of them because they can't be changed in a non-breaking way, but the changes that we _can_ make to remove the confusion, we should make them. Sure, I'm not claiming that git's perfect or can't be improved. [As I noted, I have my own list of complaints about its terminology.] However, just as it's wrong to ignore all complaints for such reasons, it's _equally_ wrong to assume the opposite and think that all such complaints are justified. Some differences in terminology _are_ due to a very different model, and can't simply be papered over. It isn't "hand-waving" to point this out. They might (and should) be better documented/explained, but there are definitely terms and concepts where the only reasonable solution is for newbies to have some patience and take some time to learn them. My impression of the original post was that it contained a little of both. -Miles -- Cat is power. Cat is peace. -- 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