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Complaining is not the best strategy for marketing anything. If one cannot use it, why bothering onesepf with more complex problems comes up in software engineering? A free market theory says anyone can prosper if one does what can do great. Do something else. Learn git. Or drive trucks. Do not complain.
To answer your question about deleting a remote branch: branches are usually features, e.g. fixes, new features, etc. Once I've pushed to the remote and merged, the branch is no longer necessary. This is why someone would delete a remote branch.
Otherwise I agree with you; with my team I documented the standard feature/bugfix development process including the git steps, last of which is the lead engineer merging the branch and deleting it on the remote.
The directed graph isn't the problem. I think people can deal with the idea that other people have a different version of the code from them. The parts that are hard are the horribly inconsistent commands and the complete mess that is how the staging area interacts with everything else.
I wonder whether we could create a much better and more consistent command line interface from scratch?
Git is one of those technologies where it's super important to get a good grasp of how to internals work. Once you got that, it get easier to answer git questions for others or yourself, and to read the documentation or man pages, as you know what is happening. With how software devs use git, it's 100% worth it to read a good book on it.
I would also love to get some recommendation on git. I'm using the github desktop gui atm (very new to this world), but I'd like to start learning git. it is kinda intimidating.
https://learngitbranching.js.org/ (which presents a visualisation of the commit history)
https://github.com/Gazler/githug (nice for small exercises; although you kinda have to pay attention and not just 'game' your way through it).
I don't agree at all. Git is the simplest version control system I've ever used. The concept of merging, rebasing, cherry-picking, and resetting works so naturally that I'm basically going to expect this level of ease of use from any VCS I use going forward. That being said, I know there are some who have trouble with Git. But IMO it isn't because Git is hard, but because they don't have to truly understand Git to us…
Then you have never used Mercurial.
https://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-m...
Git is one of those technologies where it's super important to get a good grasp of how to internals work. Once you got that, it get easier to answer git questions for others or yourself, and to read the documentation or man pages, as you know what is happening. With how software devs use git, it's 100% worth it to read a good book on it.
I would also love to get some recommendation on git. I'm using the github desktop gui atm (very new to this world), but I'd like to start learning git. it is kinda intimidating.
Basically it's impossible to learn something without trying and making mistakes, and analysing what went wrong. No failing - no success. You will get it, not that hard. Good luck!
It's a shame that github was created and not MercurialHub and now we are stuck with Git.
Now even Atlassian abandoned Mercurial.
I don't think git is hard at all, it's lightweight and elegant, and quite frankly, extremely logical to understand.. Sure, the syntax can be hard to grasp at first, but that's a reasonable price to pay for brevity tbh.
We could probably make a new and better command line interface that brings out the underlying simplicity more.
I don't agree at all. Git is the simplest version control system I've ever used. The concept of merging, rebasing, cherry-picking, and resetting works so naturally that I'm basically going to expect this level of ease of use from any VCS I use going forward. That being said, I know there are some who have trouble with Git. But IMO it isn't because Git is hard, but because they don't have to truly understand Git to us…
I still miss Mercurial. Unfortunately most people moved to Git so I also moved to it.