More interesting than I expected, though the title didn’t lead me to expect the actual content of the article was as someone not in UX (?). I really sympathized with the person they quoted who said they would need a 20% improvement in productivity in the next week to use a new tool.
For me, and I guess for most people, Git/Mercurial are tools I spend maybe at most 1% of my time interacting with (maybe half a minute every hour) – any more than that and something has probably gone wrong. Then it’s not even possible for version control to increase my productivity by more than 1% :)
EDIT: Well, I realized I spend more than 1% of my time reading diffs. But that is more me interacting with the diff utility, which, aside from maybe showing word diffs / highlighting changes in structure more intelligently, seems unimprovable. And that’s either through hg diff -r qparent, reading the files in my patch queue, or using the patch tool.
More interesting than I expected, though the title didn’t lead me to expect the actual content of the article was as someone not in UX (?). I really sympathized with the person they quoted who said they would need a 20% improvement in productivity in the next week to use a new tool.
For me, and I guess for most people, Git/Mercurial are tools I spend maybe at most 1% of my time interacting with (maybe half a minute every hour) – any more than that and something has probably gone wrong. Then it’s not even possible for version control to increase my productivity by more than 1% :)
EDIT: Well, I realized I spend more than 1% of my time reading diffs. But that is more me interacting with the diff utility, which, aside from maybe showing word diffs / highlighting changes in structure more intelligently, seems unimprovable. And that’s either through
hg diff -r qparent, reading the files in my patch queue, or using thepatchtool.