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I'm constant midnight commander (linux/osx), FAR commander (windows) user. I'm so glad that it works flawlessly almost anywhere there is terminal support...
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJhZhLg3obk [1] https://bpython-interpreter.org/
git
Sad to see this in the grey. Git is unintuitive to those who don't understand it. If you read about its internals and learn how it works, the command line gets much better. It's well documented and it gives you a whole lot of power and insight into the inner workings of the VCS. Things like launching your editor to do more complex commands, plugging a script into git bisect, these are all great design choices.
But git's user interface is inconsistent, has got weird error messages and confusing terminology with too many ways to do some things.
Good thing that it has quite decent manpages which explain these things thoroughly. The UI gets the job done but it sure isn't a great example of a well designed command line.
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it was awful, it is getting better and I think it's a good example in several occasions (I mean when it's not an unpredictable sequence of commands that need to be passed to accomplish something outside of a regular workflow)
I'm using git cli. Already tried sourceTree, gitkraken, intellij plugins, atom plugins.... all these attempts ended up in "I do not know which branch I am in" or "How do I get a diff to remote"?
Probably the cli that I find the most useful beyond git that I use regularly is docker... It's pretty useful if you aren't in a linux environment but need to build something in one... In my node lambda builds, I'll do something like:
docker -i -v "${PWD}/dist":/app -w /app node:6.10 npm i
There was a talk at Pycon 2017 about this [0] that's pretty good. He(amjith) goes through several examples with his favorite being bpython [1] and even covers writing such a thing in python live on stage. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJhZhLg3obk [1] https://bpython-interpreter.org/
git
Sad to see this in the grey. Git is unintuitive to those who don't understand it. If you read about its internals and learn how it works, the command line gets much better. It's well documented and it gives you a whole lot of power and insight into the inner workings of the VCS. Things like launching your editor to do more complex commands, plugging a script into git bisect, these are all great design choices.
There are other projects that interact with git and are really good: tig, for example. But git itself? Someone wrote a good paper about it already. "What's wrong with git?" was the title, I believe.
git
Sad to see this in the grey. Git is unintuitive to those who don't understand it. If you read about its internals and learn how it works, the command line gets much better. It's well documented and it gives you a whole lot of power and insight into the inner workings of the VCS. Things like launching your editor to do more complex commands, plugging a script into git bisect, these are all great design choices.
That said, you are right that understanding the git model helps a lot and for that, I recommend the "Getting Git" talk. https://vimeo.com/14629850
tig is pretty solid
Another tui I like is for networkmanager. For whatever reason, nmtui always seems to work better than the gui frontends.
I think PyPy deserves a special mention -- it's been a few years since I built it, but the last time I did it drew the Mandelbrot set as a progress indicator.