My position here is that I do not think Git does a good job of promoting itself.
It uses terminology that confuses newcomers because things with names like "checkout" don't quite mean what they mean in other systems. Far too much educational material, books and documentation is command line oriented and this is off-putting for many. I think Git has a nice elegance about it, here's why: - The entire repo is present on a developer's machine, all history etc. - Branches are trivial to create and use locally. - Staging enables one to selectively commit changes and improve how changes are seen by others. - Branches really are just named pointers. - Stashes are a nice purely local convenience (and they're just commits under the hood). - Rebasing is a huge benefit for developers when keeping up to date with other changes. - The Github fork model is superb giving each developer a remote backup of their work. On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 1:47:22 PM UTC-7, theProphet wrote: > > I can't verify this, and I'm telling you from gut instinct-- not > thorough analysis, but I think the git architecture is just not very > tight. SVN sorta made the first stab at making a CVS clone and it > included a tight architecture for atomic writes and a well-established > (Apache) web-backend for handling multiple coders using > well-established protocols. > > Personally I found a lot of questions with git that makes it > untrustworthy for enterprise coding, IMO. I would get a license for > SVN from Tigris, use a conversion tool for transferring your repo, and > try that. > > Marxos > > > On 2/6/17, Hugh Gleaves <hugh.g...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > I'd like to see a forum is all I mean, the format interaction and > usability > > > > are weak in mailing lists, IRC is ancient and StackOverflow is not > confined > > > > to Git. > > > > e.g. > > > > https://forums.asp.net/ > > > > > https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/home?category=sqlserver > > > > > http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ > > > > These are just better UIs and more friendly that these other character > > oriented systems - IMHO > > > > > > On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 12:26:20 PM UTC-7, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> > >> > >> Hugh Gleaves <hugh.g...@gmail.com <javascript:>> writes: > >> > >> > SmartGit is the best way to begin working with Git, it is much less > >> > confusing that the (poorly explained) command line stuff, plenty of > >> > time for command line later, most developers here rarely if ever need > >> > to use command line. > >> > >> That may be true for some, but not all. Personally I found the command > >> line, augmented with some aliases, *much* easier to grasp than any GUI. > >> For me it was the same with CVS, SVN, P4, Mercurial, TLA, ... different > >> strokes for different folks ;) > >> > >> > Finally I'm astonished that there is no Git forum out there, Github > >> > don't provide one and Git itself is archaic (mailing lists) and > >> > Syntervo rely on this Google group, we need a Git forum where > everyone > >> > and anyone using Git can get answers to questions. > >> > >> There's this email list, IRC and stack overflow, what other fora do you > >> want? > >> > >> /M > >> > >> -- > >> Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0x927912051716CE39 > >> email: mag...@therning.org <javascript:> jabber: mag...@therning.org > >> <javascript:> > >> twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus > >> > >> The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "Git for human beings" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to git-users+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
