On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:02:11 +0530 Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A noob question: > As people may know smartsvn is quite popular among svn clients > The folks making smartsvn have now made smartgit > > http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/index.html > > Is this a good way to start using git? After cursory glancing through that product's web page, I doubt it. This possibly could be a good idea if you're absolutely clueless about how VCSes work, simply due to higher explorability of a novice-oriented GUI interface compared to a bunch of command-line tools which require prior knowledge from books and manual pages. Git also comes with its stock GUI utilities (git-gui and gitk), but they also assume a certain level of Git knowledge. On the other hand, be aware, that tools such like this one tend to have two problems: * They tend to be "smart" and do stuff behind your back deviating from the normal behaviour of the underlying VCS. For instance, a tool might "help" you by not exposing the concept of "index" or "staging area" which is central to most of usual Git workflows, and instead the tool could try to make you feel more like using Subversion. It's hard to decide whether it's good or not. * Most books and articles on Git (actually, all I've seen) discuss conventional Git tools. Hence, if you will approach such a book while sticking to some high-level GUI tool, you will probably find yourself in the need of translating the book's vocabulary and examples to those of your tool. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
