Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > 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.