BitBucket Offers Git Support

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jose Armando Garcia" <jsancio at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.635.1320260049.24802.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>> "Martin Nowak" <dawg at dawgfoto.de> wrote in message
>> news:mailman.631.1320245247.24802.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>>>
>>>The main point is that git offers a lean mental model.
>>>
>>>http://book.git-scm.com/1_the_git_object_model.html
>>>http://book.git-scm.com/7_the_packfile.html
>>>
>>>IMHO a complete understanding/control of what is happening scales much
>>>better
>>>than a fleshed out abstraction that hangs in the air.
>>
>> OTOH, Git pretty much expects you to understand that under-the-hood stuff
>> for any of it to even make sense in the first place ("hard, soft, hard 
>> and
>> soft, index, blah, blah, blah, WTF just undo the gorram commit, 
>> damnnit!").
>> Hg you can pretty much just pick up and go.
>
> Thats like trying to successfully write an application that uses an
> SQL database application without knowing SQL, database theory, etc.
>
> Thats like trying to successfully write a networked application
> without knowing how IP, TCP, UDP, etc work.
>
> Thats like trying to successfully write a D program without knowing
> how the language works.
>
> Thats like trying to successfully write a computer software without
> knowing how a computer works.

Bad analogies: You shouldn't have to know how IP, TCP, UDP, etc work to 
successfully *USE* a networked application. Etc... I'm not talking about 
contributing to the Git/Hg projects themselves, I'm talking about just 
simply *using* them.