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Porcelain can be just infuriatingly confusing. For example, "Yours and Theirs" can mean the opposite in different contexts. The whole user interface has no common style or theme - it needs a new "visual" layer in order to not drive one up the wall.
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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.
It's a collection of hacky tools for manipulating a DAG of objects, identified by a SHA-1 hash. If you look at it this way, you wouldn't expect any consistency in the CLI interface.
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…
One thing about git I learned the hard way is the use of diffs and patches (more accurately, 3-way merges) for operations like merging, cherry picking and rebasing. Pro-git (correctly) emphasizes the snapshot storage model of git - it helps a lot in understanding many of its operations and quirks. But the snapshot model can cause confusion in the case of the aforementioned operations - especially rebasing. For exampl…
The snapshot include all the history that led to the current snapshot. So even if you did a squash instead of dropping, you're changing everything that depends on that
git synced #git pub #git pr #git hub #https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2022/11/09/idiot-proof-git-ali...
I stopped pretending as if I know what I am doing and instead use visual Git tools, such as SmartGit or the one that comes with IntelliJ. Being a Git "command-line hero" is for show offs. Porcelain can be just infuriatingly confusing. For example, "Yours and Theirs" can mean the opposite in different contexts. The whole user interface has no common style or theme - it needs a new "visual" layer in order to not drive…
I know enough about the app, and git in general, to get my job done. On the rare occasion I need more, I can look it up. I think I’ve only had to do that once or twice in all the years I’ve been using it.
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…
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.
Simplicity is in the eye of the beholder. A single trick can save you a whole lot of work. Take for example interactive rebate which allows you to update your local branches to merge and reorder local commits. If you had to do everything by hand you would certainly have to work a lot more.
Very interesting! Id like to see anyone else solve the challenge of many people contributing code towards different releases, different features, hotfixes, tagging releases, going back to find bugs, with an "easier" interface. It's like people who want a low level language that hides all complexity of the system - they are literally exclusive to each other. Im happy with git, its not that hard to learn, and some peop…
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…
I met you and we chatted for a bit at a bar after hours at a tech conference years ago, before you dropped you were a GitHub co-founder towards the end. You actually gave me some advice that has worked out well for me. Just wanted to say thanks!
Yesterday I was actually trying to find out which are the top 10 files which were having most of the modifications after they were created and I stumbled upon https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/main/Commands.md Some great extra git command are there.
Yeah, git-extras are great. Another cool one is "git absorb": https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb
https://leahneukirchen.org/dotfiles/bin/git-attic
It lists files that were deleted and which commit deleted them.