From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Git Documentation Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:40:55 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <200807220917.57363.johan@herland.net> <200807221121.22520.johan@herland.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: david@lang.hm, Scott Chacon , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johan Herland X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 22 13:41:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KLGEr-0004bA-0J for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:41:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752271AbYGVLkF (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:40:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753359AbYGVLkF (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:40:05 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:39038 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752271AbYGVLkE (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:40:04 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2008 11:40:02 -0000 Received: from 88-107-142-10.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (EHLO eeepc-johanness) [88.107.142.10] by mail.gmx.net (mp050) with SMTP; 22 Jul 2008 13:40:02 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+Vf5dYmR+VX8IyaMlEQjMlC+HZ1lxVMU2lNgXq54 Cf5uAYy9hZuoK0 X-X-Sender: user@eeepc-johanness In-Reply-To: <200807221121.22520.johan@herland.net> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.67 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Johan Herland wrote: > Many Git users will not be VCS geeks like us; they will be "regular" > people that use Git because it's useful for them (or because they're > forced to use Git at $dayjob). Exactly. But it seems a concept hard to understand to some people. It also seems that VCS geeks like scripting, and assume everybody else does, too. Not so. Most people hate to know the internals. They buy the car, and never want to look inside the motor compartment. They buy wine, and never want to know how it is made. They buy an iPod and never want to know who assembles it, and how, and in what environment. You cannot teach those people to be more interested/interesting by showing them how things work internally. But you can give Git a bad reputation in the process. This, amongst other reasons, was why a company I worked at had a policy to never _ever_ have presentations or tutorials by technical staff. Never. Ciao, Dscho