Source control for all dmd source

[Ary Borenszweig]

hasen wrote:
> BCS wrote:
>> It seems you don't like GUIs. Obviously, others doesn't agree with you.
>>
> 
> Actually no, I don't hate guis, but I come from windows, and in the 
> world of windows, you get used to expect programs to work without you 
> having to read manuals.
> 
> For example, I used to play with the Half-Life SDK, and while I had to 
> read some tutorials about how to download it and set it up, etc, the 
> rest just worked in an out-of-the-box kind of way.
> 
> I never had to read any manuals for Visual Studio, it just kinda worked, 
> the expectations you have about it turn out to be true most of the time, 
> and if they're not, you can sort if work it out in your head and 
> discover how it works.
> 
> With something like svn, you can't have any expectation; you just have 
> to learn it through the manual/tutorials. What the hell is a commit? 
> what's a log? what's revert? etc etc. There's just no other way around 
> it other than to read and learn all these concepts. And just what the 
> hell is a "working directory"? That thing kept confusing the hell out of 
> me.
> 
> Now, git comes with its own set of concepts, that are completely 
> different from svn. "checkout" in git has nothing to do with "checkout" 
> in svn. What's a branch? what's merging? where/how does merging happen?
> 
> There's just no way you could work with git without knowing about all of 
> this. It's not complicated or anything, but you have to learn it.
> 
> So, when you learn to use it from the command line, then what's the 
> point of the gui?
> 
> See, because I come from windows, GUI to me means that I don't have to 
> learn anything; that I can just sail through it and it will somehow work 
> out on its own.
> 
> That's why GUIs that just offer buttons that map directly to CLI 
> commands are confusing.

I don't see TortoiseSVN as a one-to-one mapping between buttons and 
command-line actions. For example when you select SVN Commit you can add 
files from there, ignore files, revert changes, see differences. So it 
basically unified all the tools in a comfortable way. It also lets you 
see which files are now and gives you the option to add them. How do you 
do that with the command line?