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Re: Git tips and tricks

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Post by schacon »

Heya, author here.

I have to admit that I learned a lot of these things fairly recently. The large repository stuff has been added into core piece by piece by Microsoft and GitHub over the last few years, it's hard to actually find one place that describes everything they've done. Hope it's helpful.

I've also had some fun conversations with the Mercurial guys about this. They've recently started writing some Hg internals in Rust and are getting some amazing speed improvements.

I'm also thinking of doing a third edition of Pro Git, so if there are other things like this that you have learned about Git the hard way, or just want to know, let me know so I can try to include it.

Re: Git tips and tricks

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Post by patatino »

I do not want to learn git tricks. I just wanna use it as simple as possible. Just let me push my code and be done with git and keep on working.

Kudos to all who love git, for me, it's just a tool I have to use.

Re: Git tips and tricks

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Post by schacon »

patatino wrote: post #3

I do not want to learn git tricks. I just wanna use it as simple as possible. Just let me push my code and be done with git and keep on working. Kudos to all who love git, for me, it's just a tool I have to use.

I don't totally disagree. I love Git and I find all these things very cool, but I know it's overhead a lot of people don't want. The post is on the blog of the new GUI that I'm trying to build to make the cool things that Git can do much faster and more straightforward, so maybe check it out if the CLI isn't your favorite thing.

Re: Git tips and tricks

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Post by brainzap »

patatino wrote: post #3

I do not want to learn git tricks. I just wanna use it as simple as possible. Just let me push my code and be done with git and keep on working. Kudos to all who love git, for me, it's just a tool I have to use.

same

Re: Git tips and tricks

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Post by SushiHippie »

schacon wrote: post #2

Heya, author here. I have to admit that I learned a lot of these things fairly recently. The large repository stuff has been added into core piece by piece by Microsoft and GitHub over the last few years, it's hard to actually find one place that describes everything they've done. Hope it's helpful. I've also had some fun conversations with the Mercurial guys about this. They've recently started writing some Hg inter…

Hey little feedback on the terminal images in your posts. I'm viewing this on a phone, and it would be better if the terminal images were just the terminal (some are) and not surrounded by a large blank space which is your wallpaper. This would make it a bit easier to read on small screens, without the need to zoom in!

Re: Git tips and tricks

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Post by schacon »

SushiHippie wrote: post #6
schacon wrote: post #2

Heya, author here. I have to admit that I learned a lot of these things fairly recently. The large repository stuff has been added into core piece by piece by Microsoft and GitHub over the last few years, it's hard to actually find one place that describes everything they've done. Hope it's helpful. I've also had some fun conversations with the Mercurial guys about this. They've recently started writing some Hg inter…

Hey little feedback on the terminal images in your posts. I'm viewing this on a phone, and it would be better if the terminal images were just the terminal (some are) and not surrounded by a large blank space which is your wallpaper. This would make it a bit easier to read on small screens, without the need to zoom in!

But then would it be as pretty?

Re: Git tips and tricks

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Post by goku12 »

patatino wrote: post #3

I do not want to learn git tricks. I just wanna use it as simple as possible. Just let me push my code and be done with git and keep on working. Kudos to all who love git, for me, it's just a tool I have to use.

A part of Git's complexity is due to the fact that it was originally meant to be just the plumbing. It was expected that more user-friendly porcelain would be written on top of the git data model. Perhaps that is still the best bet at having a simple and consistent UI. Jujutsu and Got (game of trees) are possible examples.
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