In general I agree that distributed systems are much better than centralized ones.

<rant>

The reason that I don't advocate git usage is that I simply can't work with it.

I tried, a few times already. With different tutorials and with different tasks in mind, and I always failed.

Last time I tried to bisect a regression in perl. There's that cool git-bisect tool which really works great, but it always reported some errors about files that would be overridden with a merge. It took me quite some time that I could work around those with git-clean (no tutorial on git-bisect mentioned that, and I don't think I was doing something unusual).

After I found out, I managed to make a bisect, report the offending changeset to p5p, and rgs answered that it didn't seem to be the right one. D'oh.

I keep hearing good things about git, so I try it out from time to time, but so far it was always disappointing.

Am I too dumb to work with git? Or do the various tutorials suck? or is there some underlying concept that I have to grok, and then all problems turn into a harmless cloud on the distant horizon?

Am I the only one who can't seem to get along with git?

</rant>

In reply to Re^5: Losing faith in CPAN - unresponsive module authors (git vs. svn) by moritz
in thread Losing faith in CPAN - unresponsive module authors by andreas1234567

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