> Incorrect. As of this writing, there are 146,090 quetions[1] tagged > [git] on stackoverflow. Compare that to the 161,963 questions[2] > tagged [windows], or the 2,084,537 questions[3] tagged [python]. Please remain on the topic. Read my initial sentence again. What has "tagged" to do with related? And even if, the amount of 146,090 "tagged" questions is absolute madness. This is insane. Just look at the ratio in comparison to Python, a programming language. It is crazy to assume that this is fine and only proves my point. No, Git is not a complex programming language like Python, nor is it a Kernel API. It is supposed to be a user-facing tool made for humans. The fact is, that Junio C Hamano is doing a terrible job as a product manager. Because apparently, most users seem to have a problem with it. Why can this not be pointed out? ------- Original Message ------- On Saturday, December 31st, 2022 at 8:19 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 06:11:17PM +0000, Filip Lipien wrote: > > > There are more than one million questions on Stackoverflow related to the usage of Git. > > This is not normal. > > > Incorrect. As of this writing, there are 146,090 quetions[1] tagged > [git] on stackoverflow. Compare that to the 161,963 questions[2] > tagged [windows], or the 2,084,537 questions[3] tagged [python]. > > [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/git > [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/windows > [3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python > > The fact that there are a large number of questions in stackoverflow > is more a measure of a tool's popularity than anything else. And if > it's popular, it's probably because a large number of developers have > found it to be useful. > > > Git is in its current state not a tool that's made for humans. > > > It's made for developers like me, and last I checked, I'm human. :-) > It may not be made for you, but that's OK; you don't have to use it. > > My personal opinion is that it has probably saved a net total of > billions of dollars of developer time, for those who know how to use > it. > > Best regards, > > - Ted > > P.S. I would commend to you Neal Stephenson's essay, "In the > beginning was the command line". It was available for sale as a book, > but as it was published a while back in 1999, it's since been made > available for free download[4]. Unfortunately, because it was so > popular, the resulting download traffic crashed his publisher's > website, and it's no longer available there. The best place to get it > is here[5]. > > [4] https://www.nealstephenson.com/in-the-beginning-was-the-command-line.html > [5] https://github.com/danielmkarlsson/library/blob/master/Neal Stephenson - In the Beginning was the Command Line.pdf > > It's a short read; only 60 pages in the PDF. About midway through the > essay, in section 11, there is a comparison made between Linux and the > Hole Hawg, an industrial drill made by the Milwaukee Tool Company. If > Linux is the Hole Hawg of Operating Systems, then perhaps git is the > Hole Hawg of Source Code Management systems. If it's too much SCM for > you; there's no shame --- you can always choose to use lesser SCM's > for your own personal projects. :-)
