Well thanks Konstantin for the answer! Ive tried a couple of times to post to the group and not succeeded earlier Did you see this now or earlier? I posted this 10 days ago.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov <flatw...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > 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.
