Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Nov 15, 2006, 18:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20061115184914.GA24122@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611151315291.2591@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:

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> As for the fraction of people complaining being a small fraction of 
> current GIT users: that is easily explainable by the fact that most 
> people who would have grown the complainers group are simply not GIT 
> users anymore since they were turned away by GIT's current user 
> interface issues.  The only complainers remaining are those who see 
> value in the GIT technology but who would like to bring more 
> intuitiveness to the GIT interface instead of going for the alternative 
> technology.  And those kind of people are always few.

Or they are by proxy.

*I* don't see that much of a problem with git pull; I can use it without trouble at this point. But I find it difficult to teach to others.

My complaints about git pull/fetch/push are by proxy for about 10 other users who aren't on the mailing list but whom I interact with through Git. They don't like pull/fetch/push very much.

So count my complaints 10 times.  :)

Ok, that's still a drop in the bucket of current Git users. But still, I'm sure there are others. I think Carl was recently talking about complaints from some Fedora folks...