Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2010 (resend)
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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- Jul 7, 2010, 21:43 UTC
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Yann Dirson <ydirson@free.fr> writes:
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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb <at> gmail.com> writes: > > === 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...
Relative ease of use of Git as compared to perceived ease of distributed version control as generic subject.
But I don't think it is a good way to go (and get meaningfull answers).
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> > 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 mistakes or outdated things.Hmmm... perhaps it would be worth to create GitContrib page on Git Wiki, and link it from InterfacesFrontendsAndTools page...
-- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git