On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 07:57:43PM -0500, Aron Griffis wrote: > Fernando J. Pereda wrote: [Sat Mar 25 2006, 06:18:52PM EST] > > Well, I find it easier to understand than many other DVCSs out there... > > In fact I don't think it is difficult to use in any way. Maybe pre-1.1 > > versions had some syntax weirdnesses, but the 1.2 series are really easy > > to use and understand... > > That is good to hear. It's possible that my comments were misplaced, > and it would be worth my while to reinvestigate git. Personally I use > mercurial daily (xen) and I've been very happy with it. > > I'm under the impression that mercurial is easier to use than git, > mostly because of git's philosophy of providing the low-level > infrastructure and expecting other projects to build user-friendly > interfaces. While that split sounds good in theory, it seems to > result in one interface that's powerful+complex, and other interfaces > that are weak+easy. Again, that's an impression, not recent personal > experience.
Definately that was the case some months ago. Now Git provides a 'porcelain' (user oriented) interface, and using the 'plumbing' (core) tools directly is highly discouraged. Also Cogito has improved a lot since then. > > > *shrug* All possible with the other DVCSs, generally easier to > > > use, and harder to screw up your repo. > > > > How would you screw your repo using normal Git commands ? > > I shouldn't have made that statement since I haven't done it > personally, only heard of it happening to other people, and not > recently. Again, might be the case with ancient versions, I screwed some of my repos :) But definately not with post-1.0 versions. Basically, I think you tried/heard about, ancient versions of Git and Cogito, and yeah... the very first versions were a PITA sometimes. Cheers, Ferdy -- Fernando J. Pereda Garcimartín Gentoo Developer (Alpha,net-mail,mutt,git) 20BB BDC3 761A 4781 E6ED ED0B 0A48 5B0C 60BD 28D4
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