Why Do People Hate Git? 74% People Do (311 opinions)

Misses the point
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In general, almost all software development is to essentially take a difficult problem and simplify it for humans - "machines do the work" etc. But not git - it takes ... read all

by JBS on 10 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Created by a clueless git for the clueless newbies
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Git works fine for newbies because that's the only thing they've known. But us senior devs who's used Clearcase / CVS / SVN / etc realise it's the worst of ... read all

by SeniorDev on 10 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
I feel that I go back to ASM time. We
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I feel that I go back to ASM time. We are programmers to make people's life easier. Unfortunately, I was forced to use it in my new job. (If I ... read all

by Jie H on 09 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Newbie crowd made criticall mass
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It brought the attention of newbie followers of Torvalds (whom we all respect and love) to automatically support the tool and contribute intoxicating internet with TONS of poor tutorials with ... read all

by cristian on 26 Feb - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Git Violates Interface Design Principals
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It violates the central interface design principal that basic features should be easy to use (if necessary at the expense of making more complex features harder to use). There is ... read all

by 7538john on 14 Feb - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
It's like flying Boeing...
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It's like piloting Boeing without electricity on board. read all

by supernewsmaker on 18 Jan - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag

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Git must DIE!
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Constantly losing my local changes with "stash" crap. Can't pull changes on server without need to commit server changes, really? 0_o Can't pull cause it says i need to commit ... read all

by supernewsmaker on 18 Jan - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
It makes people think that DVCS has to be
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It makes people think that DVCS has to be complicated. It makes extremely hard things possible (but still hard hard) by making simple things hard - instead of making sure ... read all

by Arne B on 08 Jan - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Too complex for the medium developer, it is
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Too complex for the medium developer, it is created to make complex things possible, as opposed to making the simple things simple. So if you need the complex things it ... read all

by Gian R on 03 Jan - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
The key concepts behind git are faulty.
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The key concepts behind git are faulty. read all

by Pavel L on 30 Nov - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
it exists. I honestly haven't found a single use
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it exists. I honestly haven't found a single use case where I could do something I couldn't do in tortoiseSVN, not to mention the countless hours I've wasted circumnavigating it's ... read all

by Arvind G on 07 Nov - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Better know some plumbing to use this porcelain
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Git features, performance and flexibility are great, but it's all ruined by the fact that there is no separate of implementation details and (arbitrary and inconsistent) "interface". Even beginners can't ... read all

by Max H on 01 Nov - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Git is so broken it can never be fixed
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It is fundamentally broken in its design - it tries to adapt first to the most convoluted possible use-cases, assuming that if it can manage the worst, the easy stuff ... read all

by Mats on 31 Oct - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Merge differences. shows up as 900 lines of change
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Merge differences. shows up as 900 lines of change because I added 1 extra line into the code file. read all

by John P on 13 Oct - 2 replies - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Git Must Die
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I see messages like: "To prevent you from losing history, non-fast-forward updates were rejected." What the F is a non-fast-forward update? Is that the best you can come up with? ... read all

by Jack W on 10 Oct - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Merging is worse with Git than CVS!
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Git is supposed to make merging easy but merging with colleagues is always a waste of time. I get in these catch 22's where it says its cant Push due ... read all

by John on 05 Oct - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
difficult to update the latest changes
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I cannot take easily the changes made by my coleagues. read all

by Francisco M on 28 Aug - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
I"ve spent three weeks working out kinks in the
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I"ve spent three weeks working out kinks in the git interface for me to be able to 1) commit changes to my project 2)revert changes to my project Worst version ... read all

by Sofiane M on 23 Aug - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
overly complex, poorly designed commands, non
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overly complex, poorly designed commands, non intuitive. Working at companies that made the same kinds of software, i've worked with perforce, svn and git. Way too much thought needed when ... read all

by Alan W on 10 Aug - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
It makes me want to murder a puppy
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It makes me want to murder a puppy read all

by Greg G on 27 Jul - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag