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Git is a Hole Hawg, just like UNIX. That's intentional. Stop trying to change the software to be easier. Instead change yourself. Make yourself stronger and better by learning this complicated stuff, and become a master.

You can't drive a car with a manual, the solution isn't to get an automatic. The solution is to learn to drive stick.

For those unfamiliar with the Hole Hawg:

http://steve-parker.org/articles/others/stephenson/holehawg....

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I think I take your point, but we should only put up with having to learn necessarily complicated things. So to the extent that the Git interface reflects a powerful and flexible internal model, I'm with you. But Git is also unnecessarily complicated. The commands are inconsistent and hard to remember until you have them by rote. That's a failure of software design.

"That's a failure of software design."

Or the evidence of a differing opinion on what amount of complexity is necessary.

Great story about the Hole Hawg, but... I've had two houses built. For about five years, I spent 8-12 hours a day with some of the best contractors in Massachusetts.

I never saw a Hole Hawg.

I kinda wonder if that's the story you tell yourself to explain why you were hanging in midair from a drill.

The Hole Hawg is quite real, actually:

http://www.milwaukeetool.com/tools/drills/hole-hawgs

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