Re: On the popularity of git

[Nikolaus Rath]

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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