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Article argues that git is intrinsically confusing--if you could redesign git from scratch, what would you change? (dl.acm.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s a fundamentally visual problem

In what way do you mean git versioning is fundamentally visual?

Or do you mean understanding it or visualising it? The data and its relationships?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Git is a graph of commits and you can't really display a graph in any way except visually. Even the CLI has a way of showing it visually (git log --graph).

Think about other graphs you might interact with, e.g. node graphs in 3D graphics of music production. How many of them do you manipulate with a CLI?