Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 09:25:30PM +0100, Branko ??ibej wrote:
>
>> I wonder if it would make sense to do a survey on the users@ list about
>> this. I prophesy that most responses would be either "what's a peg
>> revision?" or "yes, I get bitten by that all the time."
>>
>
> Well, you can also find questions such as "what's a diff?",
> "what's a branch?", and "what's a merge?" in our user base.
>
> I can't wait for "what's a tree conflict?" by the way.
>
You forget the most fundamental "what's a version?" and before "tree
conflict" it'll be, "computers grow trees?"
But I digress ...
> While the concept of peg revs takes a while to wrap your head
> around (it did/does for me, I keep forgetting about them because
> I don't use them much), I don't think making it behave inconsistently
> across different commands is going to help either. I'm with Mark
> on this one.
>
> svn can certainly be used intuitively to a large degree, but some
> things require users to learn what's going on under the hood.
>
Well *yes* but I'm tallking about things like "svn log" and "svn co
-r51" and such that currently do not behave intuitively at all. I agree
that one should understand what's going on in "svn diff -r12:43 URLA_at_24
URLB_at_55", but why complicate the simple cases?
> Compared to e.g. git, we're actually doing quite well in this department.
>
Ooh, I have a soft spot for git ... it's in the corner of the outhouse
and I churn it regularly to make sure it doesn't grow a crust ...
> Similar problem:
>
> Do you use vim or emacs instead of e.g. nano?
> Right. And how many weird things do you have to keep in your head
> so you can work with either of those?
>
> I lost count years ago :P
>
I'll have you know that I run my Emacs in VI-emulation mode with the
interpret-eeg minor mode turned on. Us just thinks at 'em and they reads
what us thunked!
-- Brane
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