Oscar never had to use Git!

Juliane.

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From: P Lijnzaad<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 8:35 AM
To: Bennet Fauber<mailto:[email protected]>
Cc: Software Carpentry Discussion<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Discuss] Teaching Git with Github Desktop

I concur with Juan Nunez-Iglesias, the git command line interface is 
horrendously complicated (or should I say inconsistent *), even for experienced 
programmers. This is of course partly due to the git data model, which is also 
very complicated (with >= 5 places to mentally keep track of things: working 
copy, index, repository, remotes, and stash). I had good experiences with Easy 
Git (eg; see https://people.gnome.org/~newren/eg/) when transitioning from svn. 
But it is aimed at exactly that (svn -> git), and I'm not sure it's maintained 
anymore. To further the goal of reproduceable research, anything that makes it 
easier to use git should be welcomed.

(*) of course,  Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative (Oscar 
Wilde), but still ...

Philip

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