I used CVS and ClearCase before moving into Git, and it took me some time to adjust to the fact that the cost of branching in Git is much much less than ClearCase. And getting into the “distributed” mindset didn’t happen overnight.

  • @[email protected]
    13•6 months ago

    the UI conversation around git has been going on long enough (here included) that there has to have been a significant global productivity cost due to the lack of a better UI.

    I don’t think this is true.

    Git is ugly and functional.

    People love to complain about it being ugly, but it does what it’s meant to. If there was actually a persistent productivity hit from its interface, one of the weird wrappers would have taken off, and replaced it.

    But the truth is, those wrappers all seem to be written by people learning to use git in the first place, and just get abandoned once they get used to it.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•6 months ago

      Git is ugly and functional.

      I don’t even think it’s ugly. It just works and is intuitive if you bother to understand what you’re doing.

      I think some vocal critics are just expressing frustration they don’t “get” a tool they never bothered to learn, particularly when it implements concepts they are completely unfamiliar with. At the first “why” they come across, they start to blame the tool.

    • maegul (he/they)English
      1•6 months ago

      If there was actually a persistent productivity hit from its interface, one of the weird wrappers would have taken off, and replaced it.

      How many use a GUI or text editor plugin (eg magit) for git? AFAICT, such things, as a category, are rather popular.