"I underestimated how good it makes people feel to understand something incredibly complicated"
Or rather (in many cases) how good it makes people feel to use and tell other people they use something incredibly complicated, whether they actually understand it or not.
I'd venture that a fairly large amount of the people who use git don't really understand it fully, they just understand some very small subset of what they picked up from whatever "best git flow" website or book they happened to read.
Lest anyone think I'm being elitist here, I'll come right out and admit there's a ton of stuff in git I've never bothered to really understand. I'm okay with standard push/pull commits, stashing and rebasing, but I still kinda think of these things as sort of interpretations of concepts I'm used to from older non-DVCS systems, I don't "grok" git, not really -- never really bothered since I find source control systems incredibly useful but not inherently interesting (to me personally).
All that said, I don't use git to show off, I use it because virtually everyone else does and there is a certain pragmatic benefit to going with the flow on something like that even if I think it is overkill for a lot of the projects I need a VCS for.
Or rather (in many cases) how good it makes people feel to use and tell other people they use something incredibly complicated, whether they actually understand it or not.
I'd venture that a fairly large amount of the people who use git don't really understand it fully, they just understand some very small subset of what they picked up from whatever "best git flow" website or book they happened to read.
Lest anyone think I'm being elitist here, I'll come right out and admit there's a ton of stuff in git I've never bothered to really understand. I'm okay with standard push/pull commits, stashing and rebasing, but I still kinda think of these things as sort of interpretations of concepts I'm used to from older non-DVCS systems, I don't "grok" git, not really -- never really bothered since I find source control systems incredibly useful but not inherently interesting (to me personally).
All that said, I don't use git to show off, I use it because virtually everyone else does and there is a certain pragmatic benefit to going with the flow on something like that even if I think it is overkill for a lot of the projects I need a VCS for.