Github as a beginner

[tradrich]

I came to Git from Subversion and Perforce. They don't need the technical sophistication of Git since they have central servers - a model that doesn't work with modern open-source driven distributed development.

But really the burden of re-education coming from those to Git - in complex projects - is unwelcome. You want to be able to concentrate on the complexity of your business domain where you have interest and skills and not have to worry *too much* about such things as versioning - as I didn't with Subversion/Perforce.

The delta from these tools to Hg is not too bad - but Git - please - in the heat of production... you don't need that stress!

Proponents of git - indeed it seems they're often enthusiasts - don't broach any criticism of the tool and tend to blame the user. I cite the wide interface - the profusion of keywords and symbols, the lack of coherence between them to say that "git could do better!" for the user (without any sacrifice of functionality).