shokwave comments on Less Wrong Product & Service Recommendations - Less Wrong

24 Post author: lukeprog 02 July 2012 01:18PM

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Comment author: shokwave 07 July 2012 03:54:37PM 0 points [-]

Oh, the problem is that concepts like "squash" and "fast-forward merge" and "remote ref" just don't make a lot of sense immediately.

Comment author: DanArmak 07 July 2012 04:43:07PM 0 points [-]

Fine, but that problem shouldn't be somehow specific to the GUI and irrelevant to the CLI. The purpose of having a GUI isn't to teach people git or hide unfamiliar concepts, it's to make correct operations more convenient to people who for whatever reason don't want a CLI in their workflow.