From: Jesper Eskilson Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:19:26 GMT Subject: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful Message-ID: <487E3BAE.80500@iar.se> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Jesper Eskilson wrote: > >> 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. > > What does your answer have to do with my mail, i.e. with plumbing? Nothing, really. I just wanted to comment on your note on Git having a reputation being complicated. -- /Jesper