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worst is git by far. i'm used to it now but when I was learning, "what the fuck did `git reset --hard` do? where is --soft? Is there a no-flag version? What the fuck did I leave mercurial for. God damn I miss svn." I still kind of miss Mercurial and TortoiseHG.
Kubectl is among the best: commands make sense and have internal logic, interface is discoverable, output is configurable and supports different formats.
The only pity is that mosh breaks compatibility with earlier versions once in a while.
From the time I was a teen I think I remember that mount was difficult to use, and mounting a CD image required passing some arcane options, though maybe I just didn't know how to use it (on the other hand I didn't know how to use Daemon Tools either, and it just worked).
I don't have a problem with git though. I don't think it's the command-line interface that's hostile, it's git itself if you don't know what you're doing. After taking some time to learn it I actually enjoy solving difficult problems with git.
worst is git by far. i'm used to it now but when I was learning, "what the fuck did `git reset --hard` do? where is --soft? Is there a no-flag version? What the fuck did I leave mercurial for. God damn I miss svn." I still kind of miss Mercurial and TortoiseHG.
`git reset` both unstages files (opposite of `git add`, straightforward enough) but also can move the current HEAD pointer to an arbitrary commit. You’d think it could then also discard unstaged changes, but nope, that’s `git checkout -- …`, which incidentally has nothing to do with `git checkout`’s other functionality of switching branches.
There are so many other examples of this. `git rebase` can not only rebase but also combine and reorder commits via `rebase -i`, which seems totally unrelated to rebasing. `git branch` and `git checkout` have overlapping but also distinct functionality. I could go on for hours.
To me, openssl and nmap are the worst. Kubectl is among the best: commands make sense and have internal logic, interface is discoverable, output is configurable and supports different formats.
k9s would save us all from carpal syndrome, but it's a curses UI, not a cli.
worst is git by far. i'm used to it now but when I was learning, "what the fuck did `git reset --hard` do? where is --soft? Is there a no-flag version? What the fuck did I leave mercurial for. God damn I miss svn." I still kind of miss Mercurial and TortoiseHG.
To me, openssl and nmap are the worst. Kubectl is among the best: commands make sense and have internal logic, interface is discoverable, output is configurable and supports different formats.
The ImageMagick utility mogrify. By default (without specifying extra command-line options) it overwrites the input files. [1] In decades of computer use, that is the only command line tool that tricked me into destroying my data because I didn't realize it works differently from all the other tools I use that don't do that. Usually, a command line utility with less options specified is relatively "safe" and you have…
The whole reason for mogrify's existence is that it overwrites the original image file.