On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 03:31:13PM -0700, kramer.newsreader wrote: > I am a fairly experienced developer and I have never had issues working > with source control tools before git. [...] > Why do I have to be a source control engineer just to be a software > developer?
Every time I see a post like this I always wonder what did the author really intend to achieve by writing it? But this is a rather rhetorical question. The real question is: why did you post this to a technical support mailing list rather than blogging, tweeting or whatever buzzword-of-the-day'ing it? You definitely has the right to express your opinions, vent and so on but please refrain from polluting the *techincal mailing list* with such non-constructive whining in the future, thanks. As to the bits of sense in your post... you basically have these possibilities: 1) Educate yourself. Git is not the easiest tool out there but clearly there are gazillions of those who use it routinely without apparent problems and quite many of them actually enjoy using it. I could now go on to explaining why I think there are things about Git which compensate for that complexity, but your rant is clearly provocative, so I'll refrain. No holy wars here. 2) I understand there are different mindsets and different preferences, so it's okay if Git is not for you or you're not for Git. No problem, really. For instance, I'm following the Fossil mailing list and from time to time one newborn Git refugee or another posts about their happy departure from that horrible SCM. Being a Fossil user as well as Git's, I always grin at those stories but I see what merits of SCMs those people value most and understand they just don't match mine. So those people have their point, but so do I. So why be a Git martyr? Advocate using another tool to your colleagues, to your boss or to whoever is in charge for the selection of tools. 3) Quit this job. This is not a snide remark. This situation is not really different from, say, being forced to program in C++ -- some people hate it, some people praise it. And last but not least: if you have any *constructive* (please re-read this word several times until it sinks in) criticisms, with clear use-cases where you can demonstrate what you do, what you get, why you think what you get is wrong and how do you think Git should behave instead, please direct them to the main Git list instead, which is git at vger.kernel.org. We here have really nothing to do with someone's ideas about what's wrong with Git as this is merely a support channel for newbies. If you think I'm making fun of you directing you to the main Git list, please don't -- just dig up its archives, and you'll see that features get updated, implemented and fixed, and documentation improved in response to constructive complaints. -- 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
