> I find Git's command line to be very scary - but then again I very > rarely use command line for SVN either. The best GUI I have found so > far for OS X & Git is GitX - http://gitx.frim.nl/. Really made it a > pleasure to work with Git. Still no-where near 100% comfortable with > Git though. > > -D > > On 23/3/09 20:48, Ashley Moran wrote: >> >> On 23 Mar 2009, at 19:12, Ciaran wrote: >> >> >>> Currently Git appears to be evil, it hurts my head, my commit logs >>> on github are embarrasing at best <g> >>> -cj. >>> >> Last project I worked on where I couldn't choose my own SCM, I got to >> pick between SVN and git. I went with git on the basis that it'd let >> me work in a more atomic, darcs-like cherry-picking manner, rather >> than the "daily backup to subversion" strategy I was used to with >> SVN. After a few weeks trying to remember how to use the >> interface, I >> gave up and just started doing `git commit -a`. Git, I'm sorry to >> say, is to SCM as Gentoo is to Linux distros. Fine if you can figure >> out how the hell it works, not good if you want an easy way to manage >> source.
Wow, sounds like a git talk is definitely a good call then! I can understand that people find the move to git from svn difficult, probably not helped by the lack of a decent GUI. But it really doesn't take much to get the hang of working at the command prompt. And once you do, you usually find that it's a much more powerful way of working. You only really need to learn a handful of commands, and with a couple of handy aliases you'll have done in a few key presses what would have taken a hell of a lot longer with a GUI. Having said all that, I have no experience of darcs, mercurial or bzr so looking forward to hearing all about them too - maybe I'll see the error of my ways! Either way, here's hoping I can help shed some light on the dark art of git to those that are interested. Tekin Suleyman "See you at Scotland on Rails!" Ruby on Rails Developer +44 (0) 161 408 8868 +44 (0) 7968 355 460 http://tekin.co.uk --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
