From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Subject: Re: multi-project repos (was Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:40:03 +0100 Message-ID: <455CF6D3.9050507@xs4all.nl> References: <87k61yt1x2.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <455A1137.8030301@shadowen.org> <87hcx1u934.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <87bqn9u43s.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <7vbqn9y6w6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v3b8ltq7r.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <455BBCE9.4050503@xs4all.nl> <455C412D.1030408@xs4all.nl> <455C94FA.3050903@xs4all.nl> <455CA2A8.5010700@xs4all.nl> Reply-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:42:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) Original-Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gkqq7-0001e6-U5 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:40:16 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1424557AbWKPXkL (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:40:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1424569AbWKPXkL (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:40:11 -0500 Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.24]:24075 "EHLO smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1424557AbWKPXkJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:40:09 -0500 Received: from [192.168.123.187] (muurbloem.xs4all.nl [213.84.26.127]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAGNdx2T023989; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:40:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hanwen@xs4all.nl) To: Linus Torvalds Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds escreveu: > A lot of the complaints seem to not be about the interfaces, but about > people not _understanding_ and knowing what the interfaces do. If you were >From the point of view of a user, there is not really a difference between the two. As a user, you form a mental model of how things work by looking at the interface. If the interface is bad, the user creates a faulty model in his head, and starts doing things that are perfectly logical in the faulty model, but stupid and silly when you consider the actual internals. A nice book about this is "The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman. --