Hi, On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Jesper Eskilson wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > Now, it makes me really, really sad that Git has a reputation of being > > complicated, but I regularly hear from _my_ users that they do not > > understand how that came about. > > Well, Git is not the easiest tool on the market to learn. For people > used to centralized systems such as RCS/CVS/Subversion, many concepts > are truly alien. I've recently experienced a transition at our company > from MKS/SI (a RCS derivative) to Subversion, and the mental gap was for > many users HUGE. Had we done the transition from MKS/SI to Git, I'm sure > several user's brains would have exploded. > > From my perspective, the concept I found most difficult to grasp at the > very beginning was how the index worked, and many of the introductory > texts on Git that I looked through only very brielfy explained the > purpose of the index: Why is it there? Why is it called "index"? How > does it fit into a typical workflow? Having a CVS/Subversion background, > it took a while for me to really assimilate the concept. What does your answer have to do with my mail, i.e. with plumbing? Ciao, Dscho -- 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
