One reason why I like to use graphical clients such as SourceTree for Git. It hides much of the pain. Part of it is training and experience. It takes some time to be familiar with appropriate record keeping in a lab book. The same is true of using any software. I don't know why there is such an entitlement culture of it being easy, or not something that has to be practiced till it is got right.
..d From: Discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Wilson Sent: 29 February 2016 16:25 To: Software Carpentry Discussion <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Discuss] RajLab: From reproducibility to over-reproducibility The biggest thing I'm taking away from this blog post is that lousy interfaces and obscure failure modes really are inhibiting adoption of better computing practices. From the post: if you're like me, you will screw up at some point, leading to some problem, potentially catastrophic, that you will spend hours trying to figure out. I'm clearly not alone... "Abort: remote heads forked" anyone? :) At that point, we all just call over the one person in lab who knows how to deal with all this crap and hope for the best. And look, I'm relatively computer savvy, so I can only imagine how intimidating all this is for people who are less computer savvy. I heard fewer complaints of this kind, and believe that I saw higher adoption rates, when we were teaching Subversion. I'm not going to recommend that we switch back, but I do miss it whenever I have to help someone deal with a detached head... Thanks, Greg -- Dr Greg Wilson Director of Instructor Training Software Carpentry Foundation The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096
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