Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2010 (resend)
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- Yann Dirson <ydirson@free.fr>
- Date
- Jul 7, 2010, 09:18 UTC
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- <loom.20100707T105938-93@post.gmane.org>
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- <201007041013.40563.jnareb@gmail.com>
Jakub Narebski <jnareb <at> gmail.com> writes:
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> === xx. Have you found distributed version control easy? === > (multiple choice) > > + Very easy > + Easy > + Reasonably easy > + Hard > + Very hard > > Or something like that, with separate question if DVCS is difficult > or not. > > Alternatively we could ask about _relative_ ease of learning / use. > But I don't think this would go well (and I don't think we could get > good answers from that).
Related to that, would be whether the user was familiar with DVCS before starting to use git, or even familiar with VCS - the answers would be different for people for whom git is the first VCS they ever used, or for people having used other DVCS before...
> Well, Git User's Surveys always served more or less accidentally as
> the source of information about git and git community ("we have wiki?"
> from the first survey )Count me in for "we have git new-worktree ?" :) In fact, I found nothing by that name in git's tree or in the wiki's InterfacesFrontendsAndTools. Google finally pointed me to contrib/ where I noticed workdir/git-new-workdir.
It may be worth to use a URL for publicizing non-mainstream stuff. That's better as publicizing goes, and makes it easy to crowdsource discovery of mistakes or outdated things.