You have a great attitude to design (especially that of software). I love it when people take feedback as a positive thing, and not as a criticism! :) 2011/6/30 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>: > Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: >> Mike writes: > >>> I do think that git needs polishing in this way. It was designed by a >>> very intelligent programmer... however they can sometimes be the worst >>> at user interface design. > [...] >> Git is >> very complex, and changing one little thing requires us to think about >> how it'll affect everything else. > > Oh, dear. No, I don't think these things are true at all (or at least I > hope we act so as to make them not true). In its history, just like Jakub > likes to remind us now and then, git _evolved_. To make it better, it > should be sufficient to do three things: > > 1. When there is a small, obvious change that can make something > better, do it. > > 2. When there is a small, obvious change that can make git simpler > and more flexible (so other changes can become small and obvious), > do it. > > 3. When there is a big, possibly advantageous change, try it out > locally (e.g., on a branch). If it turns out to work well, use it. > > While it is always nice to see people thinking carefully, none of the > above necessarily requires thinking about all of git at once. In > particular, (2) suggests that any feature leading a well informed > person to say "Git is very complex" is a bug. > -- 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