Geek rants on git • Hacker News Board

Re: Geek rants on git

#11

Post by kiliankoe » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 3:18 PM UTC

mentos wrote: post #9

While I don't agree with the post I do think anyone that can meld the power of git with the simplicity of dropbox will have a killer service. But I'm assuming thats like having your cake and eating it to. Are there any notable projects that try to accomplish this?

Although I don't use it, Sparkleshare [1] comes to mind. It essentially is Dropbox + Git.

[1] http://sparkleshare.org/

Re: Geek rants on git

#12

Post by cratermoon » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 5:50 PM UTC

dahart wrote: post #10

Silly rant, it sounds misguided if you know git. But, two things: The author is, of course wrong about git vs svn safety. Once you really know git, it is more forgiving than anything else. Almost all mistakes are recoverable. Not so for svn. The author is right about git having a usability problem. Git is hard to learn. I'm sure some of us had the same initial reaction. Personally, I'd love to see someone put a gui s…

It took me a while to come around, but now I'm so sure that git won't lose anything I am much more willing to try things I don't quite understand than I ever was with any other version control. Yes, sometimes recovering can involve some opaque incantations, but I know whatever I wanted is still there.

Re: Geek rants on git

#13

Post by mcmillion » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 6:07 PM UTC

I love reading rants like this. You can see just how little experience the author has with working with a team or production code.

Re: Geek rants on git

#14

Post by htk » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 8:43 PM UTC

I would replace "rants" with "whining" at the title. Skip this if you haven't read it yet.

Re: Geek rants on git

#15

Post by chrismcb » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 11:17 PM UTC

markmarrk wrote: post #7

Is this satire? or a real rant!? I get that git has a bit of a learning curve to learn " all " of the techniques, but it's really not that hard to get the basics going.

I'm assuming this is a real rant, as he touches on a lot of the problems with Git. Git does have a steeper learning curve than other source control systems. And many of its features are not exactly intuitive.

Re: Geek rants on git

#16

Post by chrismcb » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 11:20 PM UTC

I hated git and felt much like the author did when I first started using it. Git has some problems. Of course some of the problems stem from its features. To me its biggest feature is "branching" and I'm guessing this is why many people like it. It makes it trivial to work on multiple bugs fixes at one time, without mixing code. Checking in locally can be nice, but I agree, why do I have to do that when I'm networked? But the power of the simple branches pretty much outweighs all the negatives. And of course it would be nice to have some good GUIs

Re: Geek rants on git

#17

Post by mattkahl » Wed, Apr 23, 2014, 4:39 AM UTC

Tower is, in my opinion, the best and most full-featured Git GUI. Having used it within multiple teams, I've found that it helps users understand what's happening under the hood (esp. regarding remotes). Unfortunately, the author seems to be a Windows user and Tower is, as of today, only available for OS X.

Find it here: http://git-tower.com