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Discussion on: git is not the end of history

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Chris B. Behrens

I respectfully disagree. There is a vast scrapyard of interfaces to make Git easier to work with - the truth is that the easy things in Git are easy, and the hard things are hard because they represent a sophisticated set of decisions that cannot be simplified and remain meaningful.

Git is as good as it is going to get as long as we're version controlling the broad class of ANY text file. To make a big step forward, you either have to restrict to a smaller class of problems or the broad class of problems has to collapse into that smaller set on its own, which will eventually happen.

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

I don't disagree but I also note that there is a resistance against using the tools that make git easier to work with. People will insist you must learn the CLI. I respectfully disagree and think like Arnaud Dagnelies in the comments that git was successful because Github made it much simpler