Re: Making Git easy to use -- without RTFM, was Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was

From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 27, 2009, 17:58 UTC
Message-ID: <32541b130910271058u514c3356j84f98182b6b3ede9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910271118470.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Anyhow, here it is: one of my users refused to touch SCMs _at all_, for
> decades.  There was only one choice: have a Git branch with a purely
> linear history that contains the copy of the working tree at the end of
> the day, with whatever changes accumulated over the day, or no history at
> all.

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> You know, when there is a hurdle half of the people you see cannot get
> over, there are some who make the hurdle half as high, and there are
> others who put more hurdles there and call it a sport.
>
> In this case, I would have preferred to make the hurdle half as high, but
> I think I just have to wait a couple of years; reality will take care of
> things.

In this case, what would you have preferred to change in order to make the hurdle half as high?

Thanks,

Avery