On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 2:33 AM, Kees Nuyt <k.n...@zonnet.nl> wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 23:17:54 +0200, Stephan Beal wrote:
>
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > still working through this, but thought it might interest some of you:
> >
> >
> http://bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/
> >
> > Apparently Google and Facebook are investing in Mercurial!
> > He mentions every DVCS except our beloved one.
>
> Nice article, thanks for the pointer!
> Definitely worth reading.
>


One enlightening snippet...

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You needn’t look further than how many books and websites exist on Git to
realize that you are looking at something deeply mucked up. Back in ye days
O Subversionne, we just had the Red Book <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/>,
and it was good, and the people were happy.11
<http://bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/#fn-happy>
Sure,
there were other tutorials that covered some esoteric things that you never
needed to do,12
<http://bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/#fn-svnmerge>
but
those were few and far between. The story with CVS was largely the same.

And then Git happened. Git is so amazingly simple to use that APress, a
single publisher, needs to have three different books on how to use it
<http://www.apress.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=git&submit=Go>. It’s so
simple that Atlassian and GitHub both felt a need to write their own online
tutorials <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=git+tutorial> to try to clarify the
main Git tutorial on the actual Git website. It’s so transparent that
developers routinely tell me that the easiest way to learn Git is to start
with its file formats and work up to the commands
<http://newartisans.com/2008/04/git-from-the-bottom-up/>. And yet, when
someone dares to say that Git is harder than other SCMs, they inevitably
get yelled at, in what I can only assume is a combination of Stockholm
syndrome and groupthink run amok by overdosing on five-hour energy buckets.

Here’s a tip: if you say something’s hard, and everyone starts screaming at
you—sometimes *literally*—that it’s easy, then it’s *really* hard. The
people yelling at you are trying desperately to pretend like it was easy so
*they* don’t feel like an idiot for how long it took *them* to figure
things out. This in turn makes *you* feel like an idiot for taking so long
to grasp the “easy” concept, so you happily pay it forward, and we come to
one of the two great Emperor Has No Clothes moments in computing.13
<http://bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/#fn-clang>

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(Google says that Five-hour Energy is a drink akin to Red Bull. Never heard
of it.)

-- 
----- stephan beal
http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
http://gplus.to/sgbeal
"Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of
those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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