Re: [tlug] Great Git resources

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Darren Cook writes:

 > It seems I didn't even keep it installed, and I only remember my "this
 > sucks" conclusion. If pushed for an opinion I'd say its fundamental
 > problem is that it has a man page:
 >  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-gui.html

Hm.  If pushed for an opinion, I'd say that the fundamental problem
with GNOME, KDE, and Mac OS X gui apps can be traced to their lack of
real[1] man pages.... :-)

 > By that I mean the design of the tool feels like it is an add-on for the
 > commandline, rather than a graphical source control application that is
 > using git underneath.

OK, that makes sense.  As you predict, I don't *agree*, but "feel"
matters and I don't contest your sense of that.  And you've
characterized it precisely -- git-gui certainly does have a prominent
text box for typing in commands (but you can omit the leading "git "! 
:-)  The very most common commands have buttons, but many things that
even a fairly naive user would want to do require typing.

 > P.S. It seems there was a RapidGit project, "GUI for GIT based on the
 > RapidSVN user experience", but it is dead without ever getting as far as
 > a first release.

Doesn't surprise me.  If you want/need what git can do for you, there
are no substitutes yet.  If you don't, you probably don't even
understand what git is all about, and then nothing makes sense. :-)
Not a pleasant user experience.

Footnotes: 
[1]  Everything that's in Debian has a man page.