From: Felipe Contreras Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 19:30:38 GMT Subject: Re: Newbie grief Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:56 AM, 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). You are a prime example of this experiment called 'life', also based on extremely simple principles, mostly through trial and error. Design is overrated :) -- Felipe Contreras