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Merge
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Merge, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Former company's merge process was bash scripts taking three hours with manual hand-holding2025-05-08
- Mergetools like emerge and kdiff are opaque and hard to operate, forcing manual fixes2022-03-24
- Finds the Merge interface ugly and difficult to use2021-11-01
- Maintaining and debugging MERGE statements is extremely hard, with opaque code that is difficult to reason about2015-05-08