Bit – A modernized Git CLI written in Go

Post by cpach » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 5:33 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #120

stinos wrote: post #27

Honest question: what's up with the (2 hours ago) notation? I've seen this before in a couple of git-related and other applications but personally never understood why one would pick this over date/hour. Is this a cultural thing? Do some people actually find this better (from the point of conveying timestamp information)? My main problem with it, apart from not having a high resolution, is that it usually just leads…

It's especially frustrating when you need to compare two timestamps. The problem also exists on HN. For example, in a discussion you might want to check who said something first. But if both comments say "3 days ago", then that's kinda difficult (unless you want to wait until one of them flips to 4 days ago).

Post by Johnnynator » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 6:15 PM UTC

s_dev wrote: post #117

chriswalz wrote: post #2

Git is an awesome tool – so awesome that it has a vast plethora of options and commands to do just about anything. Bit attempts to alleviate some of that pain.

Got would have been a better name. It includes Go and sounds like Git.

Post by mixmastamyk » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 6:36 PM UTC

raimue wrote: post #69

OJFord wrote: post #48

I really liked the look of this, until I got to `save`/`sync` in the readme... That's not how I want to work, and it's not how I want other people to work in a repository I'm using. I know 'I don't have to use them then I can just use the git subcommands', but that's not the point, it's a big signal ('90% of the time the above commands will have you covered.') about the motivation/angle/philosophy of the project that…

The save command also accepts the commit message on command line only instead of opening an editor. I do not understand how people can live with only a single line for the commit message. For a new feature, I need to provide some details what is added and how it can be used. For a bugfix, a single line is rarely enough to describe the problem, what you changed, and why this change solves the problem. Writing good com…

Post by saxonww » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 7:06 PM UTC

maccard wrote: post #110

saxonww wrote: post #109

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It's much worse. At least with `git clone` you can verify that the code you're building matches something you trust. You have to trust the code and your make tool. You can inspect the code if you're concerned and validate that it's going to do what it says. It's true that the vast majority of the time a "curl | sh" works fine and does just what you expect it to do, but that's not really the point. The point is that y…

> You can inspect the code if you're concerned and validate that it's going to do what it says. You can just not pipe the curl script to shell and inspect it [0]. Executing that is no worse than executing a random make command or `brew install` > downloading the script first and inspecting it is a good idea, but still not as good as building directly from the code No, you need to inspect the code too if you're that w…

Post by SAI_Peregrinus » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 8:24 PM UTC

user5994461 wrote: post #88

bitdivision wrote: post #86

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I don't understand why his statement was wrong. GMT does not change according to daylight savings time as far as I know?

GMT = Greenwich Meridian Time The time at the greenwich meridian = not GMT See the problem here? I know it sounds like a bad pun but it's a real problem that every developer in the UK struggled with. To make thing worse, Greenwich the location is right next to the financial district of London where thousands of developers make financial software that are one hour wrong.