Ask HN: Do we need an easier Git?

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Gitless

People might be interested in gitless [0], which purports to be "a Git-compatible version control system, that is easy to learn and use". It appears to be built on top of git, using a simplified conceptual model. I read about it in one of Adrian Colyer's "the morning paper" blog posts from 2016, "What’s wrong with Git? A conceptual design analysis" [1], which summarizes the paper that critiques git and describes gitless. (The link to the paper at the beginning of the post no longer works, but a commenter suggested this [2] instead.) I should point out that I've never used gitless, and I don't know whether it's still maintained, but if nothing else the critique itself is interesting. [0] https://gitless.com/ [1] https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/10/24/whats-wrong-with-git-a-conceptual-design-analysis/ [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20131230194321/http://people.csail.mit.edu/sperezde/onward13.pdf.

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No. It was initially hard. But once I read through the excellent Git Book[1] things became very clear and intuitive. [1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2.

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Medium

_Honestly - you spend 20 minutes with someone teaching them that git only stores diffs_ ...except that isn't what git stores (as loose objects); in fact it's one thing that distinguishes git from earlier tools. See eg https://medium.com/@paritosh90/understanding-git-internals-c389bc47faeb.

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Pijul

There are other projects attempting to tackle that complexity; namely https://pijul.org/.

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