On 19 January 2016, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> James McCoy wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 08:36:47PM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > > Let's face it, git is nice if you know how to use it, and
> > > otherwise it's a very annoying tool.
> >
> > s/git/Vim/ in that sentence and I'm sure many would agree with that
> > too. Any tool takes time to learn. If one doesn't want to spend
> > the time to do that, then yes they're going to be annoyed with it.
>
> Yes, that's true. However, Vim is following Vi, and I had to add
> new features and commands in the space that was left over. With
> git we got a new tool, there was a great chance to make it "right".
> Unfortunately not much attention was given to making it work in a
> user friendly way, even though there were many examples of version
> control commands at the time. Git is very much designed around the
> functionality, not around the user. So now we have lots of questions
> about how to do something, and then getting lots of different answers,
> where it's hard to decide which is the right answer. And the manual
> pages are full of buzz words, that doesn't help either.
To wit:
https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
;)
/lcd
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