> On 1 Oct 2015, at 17:06, Roland King <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Yeah, Jens, I know. Use the command line, I know, I know. >> >> Amazing. Utterly amazing. >> > > Well it’s good advice. This isn’t your first post about how the SCM inside > Xcode broke something, sometimes Xcode, sometimes the repository. So stop > using it. You’ve posted about this multiple times over multiple months or > years. Xcode’s SCM isn’t very good, feel free to file bugs against it to make > it better but find a workflow for your business which you can rely on.
Yes, that’s what we all have to do to make any progress, but it begs the question, if SCM is broken, useless (except for the “A” and “M” flags against project files), why don’t they either get rid of it altogether or fix it. If they don’t have the resources to fix it then I guess that’s understandable, but then why did we have engineering time wasted on useless animations and superfluous changes to working components of the XCode UI. I could understand it if everything else in the XCode world was 100% wonderful and the engineers had little to do other than make things dance around on the screen…... I think that’s what gets Alex’s goat - and mine too. There are two problems with XCode in IMO: 1) It’s free (or very cheap). Back in the CodeWarrior days we used to have to stump up around £500 per year for the tools. I don’t know about anyone else but I’d gladly pay this amount or more per annum for a product that worked and that was tailored to the needs of the developers that use it. Also being a paying customer gives you a little leverage when it comes to getting bugs fixed in a timely manner. 2) There is no competing product. This is a by-product of 1, because no company can afford to ship a product like XCode for free or so cheap. Just my 5 cents (or pennies) worth. Being able to vent on the list is just a way of dealing with stress and knowing that you are not alone in your pain helps, and, in this case I think Alex actually got something good out of it in that he bought a copy of GitTower which will hopefully ease the SCM pain. Cheers Dave
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