Mail Archives: geda-user/2012/10/26/13:32:56
On 10/26/2012 08:01 AM, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote:
>>> Probably the biggest no-go, in my opinion, is that git is not
>>> something a casual user/programmer knows about.
>>
>> Git isn't that hard. Even a sexagenarian hermit astrophysicist like me can use it ;-)
>
> I won't argue about git being easy, I use it myself on a very regular
> basis, but I realize that I have searched more for git help on the web
> than I have ever done for subversion. More freedom also means more
> possibilities to make mistakes. Not an argument against git, but
> rather a mental barrier picking it up. Blobs and diffs and SHAs and no
> strict increasing version number are indeed a showstopper in some
> brains.
I'm fighting with this exact problem right now. From SCCS, to RCS, to
CVS, to SVN...and I'm very happy with SVN, but four other developers at
work are GIT fanatics, so I lost the vote.
I've gotten links to some good tutorials, and I see the power of it,
but it's just so damn foreign.
At least I won the battle about the use of GIThub...all it took was an
explanation of what putting the company's extremely proprietary source
code and protocol implementations "in the cloud" actually MEANT, and
that discussion was over...we'll have an in-house GIT server soon. ;) I
wish I'd had a camera handy to capture the looks of abject terror.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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