From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rich Pixley Subject: Re: Newbie grief Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 11:46:45 -0700 Message-ID: <4FA2D295.1090405@palm.com> References: <4F9F128C.5020304@palm.com> <201204302331.q3UNVo7o032303@no.baka.org> <4F9F3919.6060805@palm.com> <20120501111415.GD5769@thunk.org> <4FA02830.3040407@palm.com> <86havzoi8h.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <4FA04D02.6090702@palm.com> <86mx5rmx32.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <7v62cf8v2d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4FA054BA.80601@palm.com> <86ipgfmw05.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <4FA05C66.2060608@palm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Randal L. Schwartz" , Junio C Hamano , Sitaram Chamarty , "Ted Ts'o" , Seth Robertson , "git@vger.kernel.org" To: Michael Witten X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 03 20:46:55 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SQ13D-0003LM-HS for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 03 May 2012 20:46:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758090Ab2ECSqr (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2012 14:46:47 -0400 Received: from smtp-relay2.palm.com ([64.28.152.243]:62274 "EHLO smtp-relay2.palm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758000Ab2ECSqq (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2012 14:46:46 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,526,1330934400"; d="scan'208";a="13294200" Received: from unknown (HELO ushqusdns4.palm.com) ([148.92.223.164]) by smtp-relay2.palm.com with ESMTP; 03 May 2012 11:46:46 -0700 Received: from fuji.noir.com ([10.100.2.12]) by ushqusdns4.palm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q43IkjVa016016; Thu, 3 May 2012 11:46:45 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 5/1/12 15:56 , Michael Witten wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Rich Pixley wrote: > >> In contrast, I was up and using mercurial in about a day and a half, >> including all of the stuff we've discussed, and all of the things I've even >> read about in git. Learning mq's only took about 20 minutes. > Fortunately, git is based on extremely simple principles. > Unfortunately, git grew out of really bright people hacking stuff > together in order to get sh!t dun; the result is not approachably or > even well documented, the UI is sometimes a bit of a kludge, the API > is probably nonexistent, and the terminology is so loosely thrown > about that it's easy to forget which way is up in discussions. > (Note, though, that Junio has done a laudable job of keeping the > whole experiment going strong). Thank you for acknowledging that. > Having recognized these deficiencies, I suggest that you provide > at least one tiny little use case that doesn't work as you'd > like; it should be in the form of a command line example that we > can all reproduce and discuss precisely. I think I already have. And you've given me an approach that is largely functional in git. It's not wonderful, but it's mostly functional. I'll post my comparison elsepost. --rich