From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Witten Subject: Re: Newbie grief Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 22:56:29 +0000 Message-ID: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "Randal L. Schwartz" , Junio C Hamano , Sitaram Chamarty , "Ted Ts'o" , Seth Robertson , git@vger.kernel.org To: Rich Pixley X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 02 00:57:09 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 1SPM0L-0005Ur-C5 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 00:57:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755819Ab2EAW5D convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2012 18:57:03 -0400 Received: from mail-qc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:63552 "EHLO mail-qc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755564Ab2EAW5C convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2012 18:57:02 -0400 Received: by qcro28 with SMTP id o28so18360qcr.19 for ; Tue, 01 May 2012 15:56:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=roxom1IIESJUsfgJ/RW8f5WMcI55rqNgmW4K506eVjM=; b=SpS37SUbxTN5FmPhn/J03i5VtUfGtZx/ggXvkz/M0BbcgsL7DazAXkWimSSIFFKuk7 cU7FzQ9wW5HqGckdFSJ2mQf708PmU4ViXXSq1iWoGBe8ofPCpBK0uX4y/StSkVBIcNTk UUwwoMIC2S2+7ikJTlWAmZutD3+fiJP75ze6tXRjfDBn1oBC1D/txshDpweMzmF4EUPF nGl2jhdEc+IRbd5h9hzaCRUYlEUIFOpMs0VNxx8O8L+uyDSKfriGb/5XdsDhT9iYLu88 2MiTjjCOMcSg/CA9ZJuCRhi5LrRYGroke+jk4L0eRPbQAstbyzz4mFONbTvzPb96sJ73 qdEQ== Received: by 10.224.115.208 with SMTP id j16mr22712000qaq.84.1335913019603; Tue, 01 May 2012 15:56:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.122.13 with HTTP; Tue, 1 May 2012 15:56:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FA05C66.2060608@palm.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Rich Pixley wrot= e: > 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'v= e even > read about in git. =C2=A0Learning mq's only took about 20 minutes. =46ortunately, 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.