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It’s not solved because it’s trash. There’s no good interface for it and people find it difficult to use.


Skill issue. It's the most popular VCS in the world by a huge margin, millions of devs use it every day just fine, countless forges have been built around it, and there's only one semi-compelling alternative frontend (jj). If you honestly find Git challenging, how are you coping with software engineering? Git is the easy part.


Millions of dev use it in the most rudimentary way, occasionally lose their stash, rm their local repo and start over, ask the office expert for help every time they need to figure out where-the-foxtrot that commit came from, don't even attempt to use reflog or bisect or interactive staging, etc.


sure, but solving conflicts is still hard in git. This can be simplified.


I didn't think Github is that bad but if you think that is the case, why would you give the same guys 17M to try again instead of fix the existing?


Because experience is valuable.




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