About http://mercurial.selenic.com/

[David Champion]

* On 18 Apr 2012, Matt Mackall wrote: 
> 
> Well, from interacting with thousands of n00bs, I'm beginning to suspect
> the quickstart does more harm than good. Having people commit and merge
> without any mental model of the underlying DAG seems to cause lots of
> trouble.

That may be for the kinds of people who have enough gumption and enough
need of deep understanding to contact the list (or you) -- I can well
believe it.  But on the other hand these quick start guides will always
exist, because there are plenty of users with no mental foundation
for understanding the DAG.  IMO the real advantage of Mercurial's
having a quick start is to take some ownership of the way that they
are presented.  The alternative is that a hundred less accurate, less
useful, and more amateur quick starts spring up in its place.

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