Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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?
Nothing, really. I just wanted to comment on your note on Git having a
reputation being complicated.
--
/Jesper
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