Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

MD> The reason cvs users have a hard time when they switch to arch isn't
MD> because arch is so much harder -- it's because they're expecting it to
MD> work the same as cvs.

Please.

I feel I'm repeating myself, but the reason why we users have so much
trouble adapting to arch is because arch is not designed to make easy
things easy.  Tla makes possible a lot of things that are either
impossible or painfully difficult in cvs; however, a lot of things
that are easy in cvs are ridiculously involved in tla.

The reason for that is that tla commands do not represent common
tasks; they represent operations that are primitive with respect to
the data structures that Arch uses.  For users that do not wish to
understand these data structures (including myself), there is no logic
behind the structure of tla's commands.

For example, reverting changes to a single file is a common task; yet,
tla requires you to write a silly pipeline to do that.  Switching to a
different version of the tree is a common task; in tla, it requires
four commands (undo, apply-delta, set-tree-version, redo).

(Thanks to AB and MB for making tla usable for me.)

                                        Juliusz