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authorOwen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca>2013-06-06 14:22:14 -0400
committerOwen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca>2013-06-06 14:22:14 -0400
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@@ -15,11 +15,12 @@ that front, too), we still have the `git(1)` UI right now and people still get
into trouble with it right now.
Git follows the New Jersey approach laid out in Richard Gabriel's [The Rise of
-"Worse is Better"]: given the choice between a simple implementation and a
-simple interface, Git chooses the simple implementation almost everywhere.
-This internal simplicity can give users the leverage to fix the problems that
-its horrible user interface leads them into, so these pages will focus on
-explaining the simple parts and giving users the tools to examine them.
+"Worse is Better"](http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html): given the
+choice between a simple implementation and a simple interface, Git chooses the
+simple implementation almost everywhere. This internal simplicity can give
+users the leverage to fix the problems that its horrible user interface leads
+them into, so these pages will focus on explaining the simple parts and giving
+users the tools to examine them.
Throughout these articles, I've written "Git does X" a lot. Git is
_incredibly_ configurable; read that as "Git does X _by default_". I'll try to