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> ...I use it every day, but if I try to look at it from the outside it's an UX horror: weird terminology with worst possible choice of words, inconsistent terminology even in the docs, inconsistent argument naming, mostly incomprehensible error messages

If a tool makes you productive, you make the effort to look beyond its flaws.

Windows and git are just two examples.



funny way of putting them together :) ...especially since Git is UNIXy to the bone, in all the bad ways.


I was thinking about the other day, and I disagree. The main beef I have with git is that it's NOT UNIXy enough. Instead of having one command for one thing, it has one command for several different things (eg, git checkout) which I find absolutely aggravating.




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