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Things I just don't like about Git

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Re: Things I just don't like about Git

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Post by gavinhoward »

I love these posts. I bookmark all of them.

I feel strongly that VCS's could have much better UX and reliability. I'm trying to design one myself instead of implementing it in a weekend. (Though I do understand the constraints Linus was under when he made Git.)

I'd love to hear more about what people hate about Git.

Re: Things I just don't like about Git

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Post by hotnfresh »

gavinhoward wrote: post #2

I love these posts. I bookmark all of them. I feel strongly that VCS's could have much better UX and reliability. I'm trying to design one myself instead of implementing it in a weekend. (Though I do understand the constraints Linus was under when he made Git.) I'd love to hear more about what people hate about Git.

> I'd love to hear more about what people hate about Git.

It's not implemented as a single portable library. This makes embedding or driving git from other programs—a thing I've wanted or needed to do several times in my career, so I'm pretty sure it's really common—suck a lot more than it needs to.

Re: Things I just don't like about Git

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Post by miohtama »

gavinhoward wrote: post #2

I love these posts. I bookmark all of them. I feel strongly that VCS's could have much better UX and reliability. I'm trying to design one myself instead of implementing it in a weekend. (Though I do understand the constraints Linus was under when he made Git.) I'd love to hear more about what people hate about Git.

Back in a day, late 00s, early 10s, Git had alternatives.

- Bazaar

- Mercurial (Hg)

Both had superior user experience compared to git, including command line and GUIs. They were not as fast, but no slow either if you came from Subversion world. They were not as flexible, but still very very flexible.

What caused Git to win was not rants of Linus Tolvards, but Github. Github gave Git a semi-understandable web user interface. Early days, Github itself had a lot of competition. Bitbucket (now Atlassian) was the same but for Mercurial. However, Github, as a good American startup, won over the world, popularising Git along the way.

(Also Stackoverflow helped a lot. There isn’t a day I won’t Google how to do basic things in Git.)

Re: Things I just don't like about Git

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Post by codetrotter »

gavinhoward wrote: post #2

I love these posts. I bookmark all of them. I feel strongly that VCS's could have much better UX and reliability. I'm trying to design one myself instead of implementing it in a weekend. (Though I do understand the constraints Linus was under when he made Git.) I'd love to hear more about what people hate about Git.

Will your VCS be compatible with git pull, git push, and the file format on disk used by git?
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