Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > Actually, at this stage, I really think cogito just *complicates* git 
> > usage.
> 
> Hmm. However, I have to say that cogito serves/d another purpose quite 
> well: Look at what came from cogito into git. Loads of useful 
> enhancements. So, I really have to point to "at this stage", because that 
> sure was not true 18 months ago.

Absolutely. I think there are still some pieces of cogito that we might 
want to migrate into git too, although they're fairly esoteric (ie the 
whole history rewriting thing). And I think we still have some places 
where git is influenced by cogito doing things differently (ie the whole 
branch tracking stuff) where we may want to change our default behaviour 
or extend on things.

So yes, "at this stage" was the operative word.

> I guess that we should not say that Git is complicated. People tend to 
> believe that, but it is simply not true. The basic steps are easy. Really 
> easy.
> 
> But Git does not keep you there.

I agree. And to some degree I suspect that the documentation pushes some 
of the advanced things a bit *too* eagerly.

Of course, with many of the projects that use git being very 
branch-oriented, I guess some of that is inevitable. You can't *not* 
mention branches, simply because even people who only track other peoples 
work do end up often needing to know about it, or at least hearing about 
them..

		Linus