Re: VCS comparison table
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- J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
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- Oct 27, 2006, 14:46 UTC
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On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:34:09AM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
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> Horst H. von Brand wrote: > >Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote: > >>19. Ease of Use. Hmmm... I don't know for Git. I personally find it very > >>easy to use, but I have not much experiences with other SCM. I wonder why > >>Bazaar has "No" there... > > > >Extremely subjective. Easy to learn doesn't cut it either. > > This one just needs to go.
It's certainly a hard question to answer, and will never be answered completely, but unfortunately it's also a really *important* question. The best SCM in the world isn't much use if I can't convince my coworkers to learn the thing.
So I think it's helpful to attempt to find out whether we have a problem here or not, even if the problem is more one of perception than reality. Though obviously it would be more helpful to have something more detailed than just a yes or no answer to "is git easy to use?"
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> Could possibly be replaced with "Has tutorial/documentation online" or > some such. No SCM is really intuitive to users that haven't > experienced any of them before, so the only thing that really matters > is how much documentation one can find online and how up-to-date it > is.
Documentation helps, though sometimes extensive documentation is a sign of a problem--it takes a lot more documentation to explain how to manage a branch in CVS than it does in any sensible system....