From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-01-03T09:33:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21082] Re: Happy new year and... moving Ruby development to Git?

Eric Hodel wrote:
> git is the most user-unfriendly a piece of software I've had the 
> misfortune of using.  While subversion has until recently lacked the 
> ability to easily merge separate branches, at least it has been 
> reasonably user friendly when I'm trying to pull in code from the main 
> repository.

I tend to feel about git the same way I feel about Linux. They're both 
fast, fully-functional tools, but often rather blunt and imposing...too 
"opinionated" for my taste, perhaps. They both are very scriptable, 
extendable, infinitely tweakable...but there's all these wires and shit 
sticking out all over the place, wires I'm worried I'll touch and get a 
nasty shock, or accidentally short out and blow the whole thing apart. 
Maybe it's a learning curve thing, but in both cases I feel like things 
are done differently for difference's sake, and unless you're in the 
elite club that already thinks like Linus, you live in pain.

The local repo is obviously awesome, but after all I have my five 
commands I use in git, and I rarely stray. And every time one of those 
wires shocks me, I find myself less and less enamored with git.

- Charlie