Comment by irishcoffee
2 days ago
Have you never seen a toddler touch a non-touch screen and be like “wtf?” Or watch a child holding mom’s phone swipe away a text message alert?
Yes, good software is absolutely intuitive. Git is garbage.
2 days ago
Have you never seen a toddler touch a non-touch screen and be like “wtf?” Or watch a child holding mom’s phone swipe away a text message alert?
Yes, good software is absolutely intuitive. Git is garbage.
Because they've already learned a model of how devices with screens work, albeit an imperfect one. Children are pretty good at learning. Software and systems should be easy to learn, but it's not a case of no learning.
So you agree then. People have been saying from inception that git isn’t intuitive.
I agree that git's UI is not particularly easy to learn, and it could be better in that regard (which is frustrating because its underlying model is about as simple as you can come up with, and I essentially can always think of what I want in that model easily but then have to google how to tell git to do it). What I object to is the idea that needing to understand something to use it is a problem.