From: Jesper Eskilson Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:50:36 GMT Subject: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful Message-ID: <487E34EC.40708@iar.se> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Now, it makes me really, really sad that Git has a reputation of being > complicated, but I regularly hear from _my_ users that they do not > understand how that came about. Well, Git is not the easiest tool on the market to learn. For people used to centralized systems such as RCS/CVS/Subversion, many concepts are truly alien. I've recently experienced a transition at our company from MKS/SI (a RCS derivative) to Subversion, and the mental gap was for many users HUGE. Had we done the transition from MKS/SI to Git, I'm sure several user's brains would have exploded. From my perspective, the concept I found most difficult to grasp at the very beginning was how the index worked, and many of the introductory texts on Git that I looked through only very brielfy explained the purpose of the index: Why is it there? Why is it called "index"? How does it fit into a typical workflow? Having a CVS/Subversion background, it took a while for me to really assimilate the concept. -- /Jesper