From: Rich Pixley Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 18:46:45 GMT Subject: Re: Newbie grief Message-ID: <4FA2D295.1090405@palm.com> In-Reply-To: On 5/1/12 15:56 , Michael Witten wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Rich Pixley wrote: > >> In contrast, I was up and using mercurial in about a day and a half, >> including all of the stuff we've discussed, and all of the things I've even >> read about in git. Learning mq's only took about 20 minutes. > Fortunately, git is based on extremely simple principles. > Unfortunately, git grew out of really bright people hacking stuff > together in order to get sh!t dun; the result is not approachably or > even well documented, the UI is sometimes a bit of a kludge, the API > is probably nonexistent, and the terminology is so loosely thrown > about that it's easy to forget which way is up in discussions. > (Note, though, that Junio has done a laudable job of keeping the > whole experiment going strong). Thank you for acknowledging that. > Having recognized these deficiencies, I suggest that you provide > at least one tiny little use case that doesn't work as you'd > like; it should be in the form of a command line example that we > can all reproduce and discuss precisely. I think I already have. And you've given me an approach that is largely functional in git. It's not wonderful, but it's mostly functional. I'll post my comparison elsepost. --rich