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Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

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SMSanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk>
Date
Nov 22, 2006, 23:21 UTC
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The car analogy is excellently clear.
> they need more than the "stupid simple" git usage, but if they don't
> need the extreme power of git, Hg is simpler for people to learn how
> to use.

As a 80%-hg/20%-git user, I'm curious what features of git you had in mind, so I know where to look as I wander up the git learning curve.

My experience with the git user interface, for what it's worth, is that I never quite get the conceptual model crystal clear enough in my head. So it won't stay for long enough for me to progress up the learning curve and retain the gains. I move up a bit, but the gain soon evaporates and I backslide, and then just hack my way through it.

I found hg's conceptual model very easy to learn, almost as if I don't have to remember anything. Maybe that simplicity comes at a price, whence my question at the start about the extreme-power features of git.

-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
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  3. Sanjoy MahajanNov 22, 2006
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