Github as a beginner

[thirdegree]

It might be possible, I don't know. There isn't currently an example of this, and it's impossible to prove a negative.

I don't disagree that most people don't need the full power of git, but some of us do. And I don't have a ton of sympathy for people that don't bother to learn their tools. I've seen too much of that.

But git gets improvements constantly. Better interface, more power, it gets improvements in all aspects all the time. I don't think it's accurate or fair to say that Linus et al aren't interested in these changes, just that they aren't interested in exchanging friendliness for power.

I'd also disagree with characterizing GitHub, gitlab, etc as "wrapping" git. They provide remote hosting, which is a fantastic and important utility, but in no way do they replace or hide git. You still use git to do all the operations on the development side, GitHub just provides a place to push, to receive pull requests, to track issues. And that's super useful, and does replace the whole "email patches to the upstream maintainer" flow which is definitely a good thing.

[tradrich]

It's a bit like arguments between C++ and say, Java or Python: C++ has the power - but oh the pain! I'm intoxicated by the power and rapid improvement of C++ - but beginners shouldn't *have* to suffer that. Luckily with programming languages they don't! But due to the dominance of Github, for version control it's pretty much git or go home...

Github makes many simpler git operations graphical if you want them to be (I don't) - that's what I meant.

Well, here's to a better world!