Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 02, 2013, at 02:54 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

>One aspect not yet touched upon is documentation.  Compare, for example,
>{git,hg,bzr} help merge.  git dumps you into a ~300 line man page.  hg
>outputs a concise, yet complete ~40-line summary.  bzr outputs a rambling
>~100 line essay which might say what the command does, but it's difficult
>to tell.
>
>hg wins here hands down.  Given how many commands there are in git,
>having to study multi-hundred line man pages here seems suboptimal.
>Indeed, having to learn git could be a barrier to participation in
>projects which use it.

Fully agree.  In many cases, git is even worse since it assumes you understand
the technical jargon and implementation details of the system just to be able
to guess at which of the many variations of a command you should pick.

-Barry

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