• Vorpal@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Saying “it’s a graph of commits” makes no sense to a layperson.

    Sure, but git is aimed at programmers. Who should have learned graph theory in university. It was past of the very first course I had as an undergraduate many years ago.

    Git is definitely hard though for almost all the reasons in the article, perhaps other reasons too. But not understanding what a DAG is shouldn’t be one of them, for the intended target audience.