Hi On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > In general, I find that people are more willing to listen to "we have > a more powerful way of doing things", if you can first give them the > equivalent of the "dumb and stupid" way that they are used to doing > things so they can switch to the new tool right away without too much > of a steep learning curve; they will then switch to the more > advanced/powerful workflows at their own pace. Other people may have > other pedgogical techniques, but I find mine to work fairly well. > > Regards, > > - Ted When one has 100 users in a company using a DVCS, you really need some sort of simplified workflow documented and taught. Not everyone who writes code is particularly keen on the vagaries of a VCS' commands. I know that must be shocking to this audience the GIT list, but it is very very true. They don't give a crap what sort of weird command combination one can pull out of the 100 or so commands when you type git-<tab> at a bash prompt. They just want the damn thing to behave in a somewhat friendly fashion. They want to check in their code and get on with software development and not over analyzing how many ways they can do the same command. In my experience, what Ted is suggesting is the only way to handle it. Most developers just want it to work and focus on debugging their project. Never expect your users to have the same interest as you in VCS. Sean -- 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
