More Productive Git

#1

Post by tosh » Fri, May 24, 2019, 6:47 PM UTC

Re: More Productive Git

#2

Post by jc_sec » Fri, May 24, 2019, 7:08 PM UTC

There's an article like this every week or so.. I don't get it. Git isn't that hard.. You can pretty much get by 99% of use cases with like four or five commands.

Re: More Productive Git

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Post by saagarjha » Fri, May 24, 2019, 7:16 PM UTC

jc_sec wrote: post #2

There's an article like this every week or so.. I don't get it. Git isn't that hard.. You can pretty much get by 99% of use cases with like four or five commands.

Those "four or five commands" do like seven seemingly unrelated things each.

Re: More Productive Git

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Post by nexuist » Fri, May 24, 2019, 7:26 PM UTC

jc_sec wrote: post #2

There's an article like this every week or so.. I don't get it. Git isn't that hard.. You can pretty much get by 99% of use cases with like four or five commands.

"Everyone knows four or five git commands, but they're all different ones."

Re: More Productive Git

#5

Post by ayushgp » Fri, May 24, 2019, 7:28 PM UTC

One of the most common issue I faced when I started learning git was diverging local and remote branches, franatically searching how to fix it and giving up 2 hours later.

Re: More Productive Git

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Post by wyldfire » Fri, May 24, 2019, 7:31 PM UTC

jc_sec wrote: post #2

There's an article like this every week or so.. I don't get it. Git isn't that hard.. You can pretty much get by 99% of use cases with like four or five commands.

> Git isn't that hard.

It's not, but if you don't use it mostly every day, or if you decide to "Delete repository and clone again" every time there's a problem, you won't ever get to learn how to fix it.

The staging area is totally unnecessary IMO. I think git would be easier if we didn't have it.

The term `checkout` is multiplexed to do more things than I would've guessed.

Re: More Productive Git

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Post by enlyth » Fri, May 24, 2019, 7:35 PM UTC

jc_sec wrote: post #2

There's an article like this every week or so.. I don't get it. Git isn't that hard.. You can pretty much get by 99% of use cases with like four or five commands.

It's not hard but the UX is horrible.

Re: More Productive Git

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Post by ChrisSD » Fri, May 24, 2019, 7:42 PM UTC

wyldfire wrote: post #6

jc_sec wrote: post #2

There's an article like this every week or so.. I don't get it. Git isn't that hard.. You can pretty much get by 99% of use cases with like four or five commands.

> Git isn't that hard. It's not, but if you don't use it mostly every day, or if you decide to "Delete repository and clone again" every time there's a problem, you won't ever get to learn how to fix it. The staging area is totally unnecessary IMO. I think git would be easier if we didn't have it. The term `checkout` is multiplexed to do more things than I would've guessed.

I find the staging area useful. It especially helps when you only want to commit a change in part of a file or just generally reviewing a commit before it's a real commit. And also to double check I'm not going to be uploading any secret keys (which seems to happen to people more often than it should).

Re: More Productive Git

#9

Post by kyberias » Fri, May 24, 2019, 7:44 PM UTC

Doesn't look right if an article starts by introducing git reset and git reset --hard.

Re: More Productive Git

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Post by ww520 » Fri, May 24, 2019, 7:44 PM UTC

Since started using Magit in Emacs, I found myself using the command line Git less and less. I can perform most Git commands with couple key strokes. Having a UI with integrated workflow with Git is pretty nice.