From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
To: Rich Pixley <rich.pixley@palm.com>
Cc: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>, "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Seth Robertson <in-gitvger@baka.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Newbie grief
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 22:56:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMOZ1BuiznhrzEOHe0N+uu=mLEw5wWTQyDpnwG8PuF1f_aNaXw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA05C66.2060608@palm.com>
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Rich Pixley <rich.pixley@palm.com> 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).
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-01 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-30 22:30 Newbie grief Rich Pixley
2012-04-30 23:31 ` Seth Robertson
2012-05-01 1:15 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 1:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-01 1:55 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 3:44 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-05-01 11:14 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-05-01 16:13 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-05-01 18:15 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 18:20 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-01 18:52 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-02 21:28 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-05-01 18:42 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-01 20:52 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 21:05 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-01 21:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-01 21:25 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 21:28 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-01 21:57 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 22:56 ` Michael Witten [this message]
2012-05-01 23:55 ` Philip Oakley
2012-05-03 16:08 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-03 18:20 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 23:04 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-03 23:06 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-03 18:46 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 21:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-03 22:44 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 22:53 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-03 22:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-04 19:23 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-04 19:30 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-04 19:41 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-01 21:29 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 21:39 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-01 22:07 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 22:17 ` Andreas Ericsson
2012-05-01 23:01 ` PJ Weisberg
2012-05-03 18:43 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 19:09 ` Nathan Gray
2012-05-03 19:16 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 20:14 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-03 20:52 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 15:56 ` Mark Brown
2012-05-04 18:23 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 19:14 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-05-04 20:00 ` Mark Brown
2012-05-02 14:21 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-02 15:21 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-03 12:23 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-03 12:53 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-03 16:09 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-03 16:20 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-03 16:44 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-03 18:26 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 19:33 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-05-01 23:30 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-03 18:31 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 18:58 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 14:09 ` Andreas Ericsson
2012-05-04 14:59 ` Stephen Bash
2012-05-04 16:29 ` Mark Brown
2012-05-04 19:13 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-01 18:03 ` Rich Pixley
[not found] ` <4FA01C73.5000909@palm.com>
2012-05-02 0:44 ` Sitaram Chamarty
[not found] ` <4F9F28F5.2020403@palm.com>
2012-05-01 1:37 ` Seth Robertson
2012-05-01 3:04 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 5:32 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-01 6:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-01 6:24 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-01 17:29 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 17:33 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 19:13 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 20:19 ` Ronan Keryell
2012-05-03 21:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-03 22:23 ` Ronan Keryell
2012-05-03 22:33 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 22:39 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 1:01 ` Illia Bobyr
2012-05-04 3:13 ` Nathan Gray
2012-05-04 4:35 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-04 5:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-04 10:09 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-05-04 14:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-04 17:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-04 16:46 ` Nathan Gray
2012-05-04 17:17 ` Illia Bobyr
2012-05-04 18:10 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 17:57 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 19:22 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-04 19:18 ` Andrew Sayers
2012-05-04 18:57 ` Jérôme Benoit
2012-05-04 20:03 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-04 20:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-04 20:45 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-04 21:29 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 22:05 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-04-30 23:35 ` Jan Krüger
2012-05-01 18:59 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-02 8:25 ` Philippe Vaucher
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