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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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Thomas Orgis wrote:
> Am Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:30:13 -0800
> schrieb seth AT swoolley.homeip.net: 
> 
>> I've been thoroughly unimpressed with git, and I'm not in any sense new 
>> to SCMs.  Never ever had an issue with subversion, never ever had an 
>> issue with perforce, but git just doesn't work, and to top it all off is 
>> full of corner syntaxes that are nowhere documented.
> 
> I just want to express some sympathy. I try to arrange myself with git and 
> it indeed is not easy for me, also because it is the first distributed SCM 
> I use.
> Cogito helps - actually, you should try to skip the plain git commands for 
> day-to-day work in the first place and directly go to cogito.
> That would have prevented me from trying to use cg pull/fetch instead of cg 
> update for what svn update does for subversion.
> Merge failures are still a nightmare to me. The whole distributed picture 
> with all that branching does not really fit in my mind yet - mostly 
> (hopefully) because I didn't really deal with that in any SCM.
> Well, that's half true... I have branches made via svn copy for subversion, 
> but I didn't need the merge part yet for my projects.
> And it's not that I never had issues with subversion (there are some), I am 
> just used to it after begin released from cvs.
> 
> Even when I don't like git, I do not request another change of scm. I was a 
> supporter for the change from p4 to _anything_ free. I would not be able to 
> contribute from my alpha box with p4. I am able to work with git/cogito. 
> Somehow.
> I don't have to like it, it's enough when I can work with it... and perhaps 
> my mind will adapt with the time to work with git commit hashsums like it 
> does now with three-digit decimal revision numbers;-)
> 
> Anyway, thanks to the IRC people for (trying to) helping me in these 
> moments of despair with git (ruskie, most of the times).
> 
> 
> Thomas.

If we can get a list of what people are having problems with on git we
can try to fix them or point out the One True Way (TM) to do what they
want. The GrimoireGuruHandbook should have a lot of the instructions in
it, and since I'm currently writing it, feel free to send in your
complaints so they me addressed (preferably on another thread, you
hijackers ;)).

- -sandalle

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