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Re: Command-line git Vs IDE+plugin?

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Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 18, 2013, 17:47 UTC
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On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:11:54 +0000, Matthieu Moy wrote: ...

> I was wondering whether others had similar (or not) experience.

Similar. When I used eclipse I didn't even try to use the plugins and just stayed on the command line. (Well, almost, but back then jgit couldn't deal with submodules which I needed.)

I have the same experience with the few git GUIs I tried - none stuck to me. Even 'git gut' hardly made the cut, I stay with the command line except for gitk which is very useful to see what you've done.

For people that live in the IDE anyway the mileage will vary, but for me there is always some extra mismatch to overcode - I know what the CLI is doing and think in terms of these operations, and I'd need to understand what the GUI is thinkig to be good for me (i.e. how operations are implemented there); for me it always fells like a mist over the repo.

And I know that I'm missing on some features - the integration of history examination into codebrowsing schoould be a good thing.

Still, if you show them eclipse, I'd also show them the git integration in there. I dread the moment I have to show someone how to merge a pull (or any merge) in eclipse though. :-(

Andreas
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
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Message 5 of 12 in “Command-line git Vs IDE+plugin?”
  1. Matthieu MoyNov 18, 2013
  2. Philippe VaucherNov 18, 2013
  3. Matthieu MoyNov 18, 2013
  4. Konstantin KhomoutovNov 19, 2013
  5. Andreas KreyNov 18, 2013
  6. Thomas KochNov 19, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 19, 2013
  8. Matthieu MoyNov 19, 2013
  9. Gauthier ÖstervallDec 4, 2013
  10. Keshav KiniNov 19, 2013
  11. Noufal Ibrahim KVNov 19, 2013
  12. Chris PackhamDec 4, 2013

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