Re: [PATCH/RFC] builtin-checkout: suggest creating local branch when appropriate to do so

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Oct 14, 2009, 09:33 UTC
Message-ID: <200910141133.11386.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910140108110.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Let me tell you this from my experience: the least likely answer is "the 
> messages are too scary".  Invariably, the answer I get is "it is totally 
> unintuitive".  Often followed by "I tell Git to do something 
> straight-forward, and it refuses to do it."

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Actually I had a rather insightful discussion yesterday (spawned by this exact thread) with someone here at the institute. He said something to the effect that git's problem is mostly that it is unlike everything else. You cannot explain git in simple metaphors like files, copies and such. Any attempt to do so will just fall short really soon.

[On the other hand, some users appear unwilling to learn something new because they "just want to version control this" or "just need to make a commit to this project".]

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch