Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful

> 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.