Hi > On 17 Mar 2018, at 12:54 pm, Peter Hancock <hanc...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >> On 16/03/2018 22:49, Joshua Root wrote: >> >> I'll just note that git is not the only distributed version control >> system, and others like mercurial and bazaar are often considered to >> have better user experience. GitHub is popular, and there is value in >> that, but we'd be doing you a disservice if you came away with the >> impression that git is the only viable choice, especially for a personal >> project. > > There is an amusing site at https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/ > that anyone who has struggled to understand the more arcane features of git > will recognise.
I guess the fact it took me a moment or two to work out the joke shows the point ;) Yes, of course, it’s completely correct to point out there are alternatives, and, Yes, git has some esoteric hard to understand features... but if you stick to the basics (clone/commit/push/pull) i think its easy to get going. Given the popularity of git and github, over the alternatives, I think i would still suggest going with it... Chris > > The man page generator is of course hosted on github: > https://github.com/Lokaltog/git-man-page-generator > > Peter
