Jose Armando Garcia wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote: >> "Martin Nowak" <d...@dawgfoto.de> wrote in message >> news:mailman.631.1320245247.24802.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >>> The main point is that git offers a lean mental model. >>> >>> http://book.git-scm.com/1_the_git_object_model.html >>> http://book.git-scm.com/7_the_packfile.html >>> >>> IMHO a complete understanding/control of what is happening scales much >>> better >>> than a fleshed out abstraction that hangs in the air. >> OTOH, Git pretty much expects you to understand that under-the-hood stuff >> for any of it to even make sense in the first place ("hard, soft, hard and >> soft, index, blah, blah, blah, WTF just undo the gorram commit, damnnit!"). >> Hg you can pretty much just pick up and go. > > Thats like trying to successfully write an application that uses an > SQL database application without knowing SQL, database theory, etc. > > Thats like trying to successfully write a networked application > without knowing how IP, TCP, UDP, etc work. > > Thats like trying to successfully write a D program without knowing > how the language works. > > Thats like trying to successfully write a computer software without > knowing how a computer works.
That's like not knowing how IP, TCP, UDP, etc work to use a web
browser...
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