Gitless a simple VCS built on top of Git

Git is, like many professional tools, something you simply got to learn. But like with many professinal tools, you don't need to know everything to get to work. I don't know all Photoshop or Ableton Live features, but I can improve my photos or create songs non the less. With these commands you can already start your own repo and work on it locally: git init // crate new repo git status // show which files are changed and which…

I haven't used Gitless before but usually these types of abstractions fall short for me. It never helped me as much as truly learning git. I learned so much about the commands that intimidated me by playing "Oh My Git!"[1]. It's an open source game that presents commands as quick-to-understand concepts and lets you experiment with them by using playing cards on the visual rendition of a repository. I was honestly surprised nobody else mentioned it here, maybe it's not…

I must admit I'm a little bit confused. It opens with a discussion that people find Git hard to use, and a statement that these problems are likely more than skin-deep but then goes on to describe a wrapper around Git which is mostly a bunch of aliases. Don't get me wrong, I'm know that many people do find Git hard-to-use, but I don't see anything in the eventual project implementation which backs up the original claim that the problems…

This seems blog fails to convey the why of gitless. It looks like a very thin veneer that's trying to hide the index, which I think is a really bad idea. The index is one of the two main reasons I prefer git over mercurial. The first paragraph says that git has usability issues, but no attempt is made to explain the reasoning and convince the reader that gitless solves these. I also have a UI nitpick: long parameters should…