From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:33:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] builtin-checkout: suggest creating local branch when appropriate to do so
Message-ID: <200910141133.11386.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910140108110.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> 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."

<aside>

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".]

</aside>

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