I've spent a lot of time thinking through this problem. I agree Git is broken. So is Mercurial, Bazaar, subversion and CVS — they're just different flavors of broken (as in they each taste less broken to different groups of people).
Version control is inherently a difficult problem to conceptualize. Distributed version control is probably the biggest step forward VCS have ever seen — but it comes at a price of added complexity on top of a complex subject as is.
But then again that's why I don't focus on "making git better" — I try and focus on making collaboration and source control better. Stop trying to build aliases or tweaks to git's command line... and maybe try and build a great source control tool that just happens to use Git as it's storage engine.
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I've spent a lot of time thinking through this problem. I agree Git is broken. So is Mercurial, Bazaar, subversion and CVS — they're just different flavors of broken (as in they each taste less broken to different groups of people).
Version control is inherently a difficult problem to conceptualize. Distributed version control is probably the biggest step forward VCS have ever seen — but it comes at a price of added complexity on top of a complex subject as is.
But then again that's why I don't focus on "making git better" — I try and focus on making collaboration and source control better. Stop trying to build aliases or tweaks to git's command line... and maybe try and build a great source control tool that just happens to use Git as it's storage engine.