[TxMt] Re: Distributed model for bundles

[Jacob Rus]

Fred B wrote:
> Jacob Rus wrote:
>> Git has been improving very rapidly though.  It is vastly easier for
>> normal (non-power-) users than it was a year ago, and I imagine it will
>> be still better in another year.  I don't know if you've tried Git
>> recently; if not you should give it a try.  If you stick to the basics,
>> I'd say it's about as easy as SVN.  But there's of course a lot of extra
>> power there too, if you want it.
> 
> There has been a lot of hype about Git lately and I don't understand why.
> I'm glad Allan consider Mercurial too, unfortunately some people
> respond "Ok, let's use Git". ;)

Sorry... my post was certainly not intended as an attack on hg, or bzr, 
or darcs, or any other system.

But really, the day-to-day usage of git is not IMO a serious barrier to 
its use by "non-power-users".  It's just not that hard IMO to do the 
basic stuff.