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Re: On the popularity of git
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Nikolaus Rath |
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Re: On the popularity of git |
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Mon, 02 Nov 2015 14:05:24 -0800 |
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On Oct 31 2015, Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Being a user of git involves learning its internal structures.
>> (Note the people recently emphasising the internal representation of a
>> git branch to me, talking about pointers to its tip, and so on. I
>> really don't want to have to know about such stuff.)
>
> To a reasonably proficient Git user, that sounds like "I don't want to
> know what graphs are"
Yes, you nailed the problem. To be a reasonably proficient git user, you
have to learn its internal representation (which isn't surprising,
because as someone else said, the internal representation is really the
git's main selling point).
Best,
-Nikolaus
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- Changing the subject (was: On the popularity of git), (continued)
- Re: Changing the subject, Yann Hodique, 2015/11/04
- Re: Changing the subject, John Wiegley, 2015/11/04
- emacs-devel etiquette (was: Re: On the popularity of git), Stephen Leake, 2015/11/03
- Future emacs mailing lists. [Was: On the popularity of git], Alan Mackenzie, 2015/11/04
- Re: On the popularity of git, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/11/04
- Re: On the popularity of git, Richard Stallman, 2015/11/03
- Re: On the popularity of git, Andreas Schwab, 2015/11/03
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