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by rjzzleep 5068 days ago
it doesn't, try github for mac. i gave it to a friend without any programming or vcs experience and it didn't take 5 minutes to understand, but at the same time when i went to check it out i found it like hell on earth.

but when you oversimplify things for any advanced user it becomes hell. git was made from power users for power users. more precisely to merge hundreds or thousands of patches a day. now you're telling people make it simpler, they're just going to laugh in your face and fully justified at that.

git has wonderful language support. it even has complete implementations in several languages. you want it simpler? hell just take one of those implementations and build it on top of that.