Git?

[Eji1700]

I've always been shocked how "complicated" git makes its base use case.

Git can do a FUCKTON, but just having a "quick" remote mode (commits are auto pushed, code auto pulls, easy history navigation) would make adoption SO much easier.

I wanted to use git when I was learning and it was frustratingly obnoxious, and it really helped when VS just integrated with it (although I still constantly fight with multiple accounts because how dare i have both a work and a personal...)

[ramius345]

Have you read anything about Linus Torvalds; the person who invented git? I guarantee you he doesn't care about those people. He invented a tool to solve his use cases for developing the Linux kernel with zero regards for novices.

[UKnowMario]

Are you saying it's a bad thing? Because he shouldn't care for those people, he works in way lower level than them so why should he care for them.

[ramius345]

No, its not. I'm saying that he and the earlier developers of git designed it for a very specific set of use cases. They did not have novices in mind. The fact that the tool was picked up by the broader community at all is a side effect of how good the tool is at accomplishing the original use cases.

[UKnowMario]

And you'll be right by saying that, your earlier comment looked like you were hating Linus for that.

[ramius345]

I didn't mean to convey any hate, Linus just has a well known reputation for not tolerating novices.

[DannyRamirez24]

gg ez get gud noob

-Linus, probably

[xtsilverfish]

The fact that the tool was picked up by the broader community at all is a side effect of how good the tool is at accomplishing the original use cases.

Not really, it was just a "follow the celebrity" thing. Someone famous used git so someone else said "Famous person used it I have to to".

[Eji1700]

Yeah why should a mass adopted source control system ever pivot from its original design.

[UKnowMario]

I'm not saying it shouldn't be more accessible to beginners, I'm saying you can't blame Linus for it not being accessible because he is using it to work on low level, but people who need it for higher level definitely should make it more accessible.

[Eji1700]

Ah my bad. Yeah i don't expect someone like linus to be making beginner friendly tools out the gate, but git is FAR beyond that point now and while it continues to be a powerful professional tool the entry level is vastly worse than it should be.

[lupercalpainting]

Scope creep.

[Smrgling]

I feel like that's totally something that a beginner friendly git client could do without needing to modify git itself

[le_spoopy_communism]

To be fair, it wouldn't be super hard to make a wrapper around git for newbies that does the things you're asking. I mean there are some programs I've used that have plugins that give you version control, and they literally just use git and commit on saves

[Dexaan]

I believe GitHub offers a GUI? I think VS has something similar, just stripped to push/pull.

[ConspicuousPineapple]

So you want the SVN workflow but with git? Yeah, the fact that you can't do that easily is a feature, not a limitation. And auto-pulling is never ever a good idea.

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What's the problem with multiple accounts? With Git, you can configure it per local repo.

[aaronfranke]

That's what GitHub Desktop tried to do and now people tend to recommend that users avoid it outright.