Re: multi-project repos (was Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts)

From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: Nov 16, 2006, 23:40 UTC
Message-ID: <455CF6D3.9050507@xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611161436230.3349@woody.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds escreveu:

> A lot of the complaints seem to not be about the interfaces, but about 
> people not _understanding_ and knowing what the interfaces do. If you were

From the point of view of a user, there is not really a difference between the two. As a user, you form a mental model of how things work by looking at the interface. If the interface is bad, the user creates a faulty model in his head, and starts doing things that are perfectly logical in the faulty model, but stupid and silly when you consider the actual internals.

A nice book about this is "The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman.

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