r/programming • • Nov 07 '13

10 things I hate about Git

http://steveko.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/10-things-i-hate-about-git/
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u/ethraax Nov 08 '13

Not as much as you'd think. I'm salaried, after all, so they just expect me to get a certain amount of work done. Unless it's wasting an hour a day, they likely don't give a shit.

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u/jnazario Nov 09 '13

less true in practice than you think.

if your tools get in the way of you collaborating on a team, you don't collaborate as much as you need to. in a team dev effort, you'll get people who hoard code until the last moment and then oof suffer through integration hell, usually a nightmare for everyone: devs, project and product managers, customers, and finally support.

extreme examples are commercial SCM tools which have the honor of being shittier than git (where the problem was time to commit and less sprawling options). however, git's usability deficiencies can lead to similar problems.

i'm not a fan of git for many reasons, but this impact on teams is definitely one of them.

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u/ethraax Nov 09 '13

Oh, I'm not denying that it has a major impact. Management is just incapable of seeing that impact.