Re: Git Documentation

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 22, 2008, 11:40 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807221335560.3391@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <200807221121.22520.johan@herland.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Johan Herland wrote:

> Many Git users will not be VCS geeks like us; they will be "regular" 
> people that use Git because it's useful for them (or because they're 
> forced to use Git at $dayjob).

Exactly. But it seems a concept hard to understand to some people. It also seems that VCS geeks like scripting, and assume everybody else does, too. Not so.

Most people hate to know the internals. They buy the car, and never want to look inside the motor compartment. They buy wine, and never want to know how it is made. They buy an iPod and never want to know who assembles it, and how, and in what environment.

You cannot teach those people to be more interested/interesting by showing them how things work internally. But you can give Git a bad reputation in the process.

This, amongst other reasons, was why a company I worked at had a policy to never _ever_ have presentations or tutorials by technical staff. Never.

Ciao, Dscho