Git Is Too Complex for Most of Us

I came to source code control reluctantly. CVS, SourceSafe, others I’ve forgotten. One of them was very expensive, very complex, took months of customization, and then it scrambled our bits following a disk crash and the vendor had to piece things back together. An expensive nightmare.

I finally started using Subversion, and it finally clicked. Easy to understand and use. It did everything I needed, and it was intuitive. But git was gaining popularity and eventually that was the only “choice”. And I don’t get git at all. I can do a few things that I need. I often have to consult google or experts for help. While I get the concepts, the commands are incomprehensible to me. I hate it.

People should try Gitless first because it's compatible with Git.

linux is full of these sorts of tools.

git is super useful, but arcane.

make is also important and useful, but needlessly complicated.

emacs is... you get the picture.

Maybe. But most people who work from this basis are going to build bad tools that don't do nearly enough, that are far worse in the long run.

nothing wrong with git, fossil is morbidly obese, an RDBMS is an unserious thing to embed in an scm engine, and sqlite shouldn’t be used for anything important at all.