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Re: Mercurial vs. git


From: olafBuddenhagen
Subject: Re: Mercurial vs. git
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:08:47 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05)

Hi,

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 01:57:17PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Am Samstag, 24. Oktober 2009 06:10:38 schrieb olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net:

> > Complexity? I still think that Git is actually very simple in its
> > fundamental concepts. It only seems complex to people who haven't
> > yet fully mastered these concepts...
> 
> That's true with any system, no matter how complex :) 

No, it's not. Complexity is a rather objective measure.

It is certainly true that many (not all) concepts don't look so hard
anymore once you understand them -- but that doesn't change the fact
that some concepts are inherently complex, while others are really quite
simple, even if they appear more complex to people not familiar with
them yet.

> I tried learning git, though, but gave up when it took too much time
> (much more than "just a few hours" - it costed me several nights). 

Yes, it takes more then a few hours: reading enough of the Git
documentation in order to truly understand the concepts, probably
requires a couple of days.

But for people programming 200 days a year, this investment will soon be
made up for by increased productivity.

-antrik-




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