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Githug - an interactive way to learn how to use git

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Re: Githug - an interactive way to learn how to use git

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post #4

I like that people are learning Git, but why are there so many tutorials for it? The Git commands that are most useful 95% of the time just didn't seem that hard to learn, IMO. It's not worth wasting memory for the other 5% of the time because I'll probably need to check the man pages anyway.

Because learning git is not mainly about learning the commands. You can write them down on a Post It note and stick it on your wall. It's about learning about how the whole thing is organized, and different metaphors work for different people.

Re: Githug - an interactive way to learn how to use git

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post #21
post #9

I can't quite get past level 4: "Set up your git name and email, this is important so that your commits can be identified" I had already set these up in my global config, but I ran the following commands anyway: git config user.name "My Name"; git config user.email "my_name@myemail.com" Looking at the code, it seems that the program is supposed to ask me for my name and email, but it never did.

Thanks for everyone who pointed this out. I'll check it out when I get my hands on a mac. Update This is fixed in 0.1.4

How do you upgrade? I just installed following the instructions in the readme
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