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Ölbaum

@tess I’m very comfortable with git as well (I’ve been using it every for 14 years,) and I completely agree with you. I had to start with a GUI (the excellent Tower) just to know which of the unrelated flavours of ‘reset’ I had to use in each situation. And I already understood the VCS concepts from CVS and SVN, and the distributed concepts from Mercurial. As you said, grouping is terrible, syntax is awfully designed (update-ref anyone?) and discoverability is zero. >>

9 Aug 2023 at 8:50 | Wall-to-wall | Open on tooting.ch
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Ölbaum

@tess It’s very powerful, and it’s good to have all this power available, but it’s being developed without any thought given to design. It’s the PHP 4 of version control system.

And you’re right as well that the bad design is so blatant it feels like it’s intentional, for gatekeeping.

9 Aug 2023 at 8:55 | Open on tooting.ch
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