Looks nice but I think you need some better documentation before anyone can use it.
Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
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Re: Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why do people make a huge fuss over git? Why? It's unclear to me what you're referring to, but the part I can answer is this: > How is git hard? IMHO because it is not intuitively obvious what it means for your "HEAD" to be "detached", or for you to "rebase" onto a "remote branch", or why "checking out" a file reverts your changes, or why "checking out" a branch suddenly clones its files, or why you'd "add" a missi…
I want to edit the commit message of a commit that is 5 commits in the past, that I have not pushed yet. What is the command to do it? Okay so it turns out I made a minor typo in that commit and I want to change it without adding any more commits. What is the command to do it? Okay so now I want to take all commits that have "bugfix pickme" in the subject and cherry-pick them to master. What is the command to do it?…
Which interface can do the above trivially with git?
Re: Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
#13This looks great. For some reason I don't mind using the GUI tools to view history and branches but for commits always use the command line. This should save some time and much typing.
I use TortoiseGit's GUI for everything except features that it doesn't have, like git add -p. It makes life so much easier when you can just right-click and go to "Show Log", search for something you care about, then right-click that one commit in 2017 that messed things up and click "Browse repository" to look at the entire repo & diff arbitrary files without checking out a single file messing up your work tree. Trying to do every single thing with a command line interface just sounds insane to me.
Re: Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
#14> are YOU tired of typing every git command directly into the terminal, but you're too stubborn to use Sourcetree because you'll never forgive Atlassian for making Jira? This is the app for you! lol
this readme really speaks to me
Re: Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
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Re: Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
#16Why do people make a huge fuss over git? Why? What is the war they're fighting? Do they have performance anxiety? Are they fearful of some unerasable backlog of mistakes people will hold over their head? I have never found myself in a position where destruction of data was an issue. I have never found myself in a position where commit conflicts could not be reasoned about, in terms of the code itself, with total igno…
> Why do people make a huge fuss over git? Why? It's unclear to me what you're referring to, but the part I can answer is this: > How is git hard? IMHO because it is not intuitively obvious what it means for your "HEAD" to be "detached", or for you to "rebase" onto a "remote branch", or why "checking out" a file reverts your changes, or why "checking out" a branch suddenly clones its files, or why you'd "add" a missi…
I'm a pro with TortoiseHg so have all the concepts perfectly clear. Git is still hard with tons of command line syntax to look up and alias, no good GUIs, and poor error messages when things go wrong like Excel locking a file or not being able to pull. TortoiseHg lets me treat my commits like little bubbles on a graph and rearrange them at will. Git isn't trying not to be hard.
Re: Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I want to edit the commit message of a commit that is 5 commits in the past, that I have not pushed yet. What is the command to do it? Okay so it turns out I made a minor typo in that commit and I want to change it without adding any more commits. What is the command to do it? Okay so now I want to take all commits that have "bugfix pickme" in the subject and cherry-pick them to master. What is the command to do it?…
Which interface can do the above trivially with git?
I think the point was that git is missing an interface that makes these easy, and it badly needs one.
Re: Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why do people make a huge fuss over git? Why? It's unclear to me what you're referring to, but the part I can answer is this: > How is git hard? IMHO because it is not intuitively obvious what it means for your "HEAD" to be "detached", or for you to "rebase" onto a "remote branch", or why "checking out" a file reverts your changes, or why "checking out" a branch suddenly clones its files, or why you'd "add" a missi…
I'm a pro with TortoiseHg so have all the concepts perfectly clear. Git is still hard with tons of command line syntax to look up and alias, no good GUIs, and poor error messages when things go wrong like Excel locking a file or not being able to pull. TortoiseHg lets me treat my commits like little bubbles on a graph and rearrange them at will. Git isn't trying not to be hard.
Yeah, Tortoise makes life so much easier. :-) I just wrote about TortoiseGit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17689294
Re: Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
#19> are YOU tired of typing every git command directly into the terminal, but you're too stubborn to use Sourcetree because you'll never forgive Atlassian for making Jira? This is the app for you! lol
this readme really speaks to me
I'm out of the loop. What's the story here? Why are devs sad about Atlassian and Jira?