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Still, it is an incredible achievement and I hope that github will be around for a very long time to come.
For a laugh:
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Honest response: If you're coming from a Subversion background (like I did) then wrapping your head around the possibilities of git takes a long time. You almost have to unlearn everything you knew about version control. If you're not frequently using local branches, your stash, `git add --patch`, git bisect or git rebase then you're really missing out. Everyone's git workflow is different which makes it even harder…
Wrapping your head around git takes a long time regardless of your background, because git's interface is incoherent and requires you to understand internal details of its implementation to a degree I haven't seen in a commonly used dev tool since the '80s.
Nothing felt intuitive. The interface for vim might in fact be unintuitive and that might make learning it take longer.
But once you learn it, the un-intuitiveness is no longer a barrier.
I don't argue that learning git is difficult no matter what your background is. But that's the nature of a tool that's almost 100% un-opinionated on how you do something.
I don't disagree with your comment but I think that's inevitable for this type of tool.
I LOVE github, their little project forever changed the way I think about & write software, and their ideas (blogposts/presentations) about how to build software are truly a massive inspiration for me. PS: Would be awesome to see who has the oldest github account on here. I joined April 20 2008.
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I haven't heard too many people say bad things about Git.
Git is like linux in... 1996 maybe. The underlying technology is pretty awesome, but it leaves a lot to be desired in terms of usability. Git is enormously powerful, but it has some key weak spots that can lead to intense frustration, and it doesn't exactly guide users into using it in the best way possible.
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Git is like linux in... 1996 maybe. The underlying technology is pretty awesome, but it leaves a lot to be desired in terms of usability. Git is enormously powerful, but it has some key weak spots that can lead to intense frustration, and it doesn't exactly guide users into using it in the best way possible.
I'm to young to know about linux in 1996, but linux in 2013 also seems to fit what you describe.
User groups had install parties so users would have a positive experience with Linux and not give up.
I LOVE github, their little project forever changed the way I think about & write software, and their ideas (blogposts/presentations) about how to build software are truly a massive inspiration for me. PS: Would be awesome to see who has the oldest github account on here. I joined April 20 2008.
January 29, 2008. User id 95. :)
Without Github, contributing to OSS would have been much harder for me (being a noncoder). Thank you for giving us a tool with tremendous leverage in many aspects, both technical and nontechnical.
In which ways do you contribute to OSS on github without being a coder? Through issues?
I LOVE github, their little project forever changed the way I think about & write software, and their ideas (blogposts/presentations) about how to build software are truly a massive inspiration for me. PS: Would be awesome to see who has the oldest github account on here. I joined April 20 2008.