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While giving lectures on programming, I have found that teaching students to use the git command line is much more useful than teaching them some git GUI tool.

While giving lectures on programming, I have found that teaching students to use the git command line is much more useful than teaching them some git GUI tool. That being said, only a few students really manage to get git after a semester. Most students just kind of muddle through with a few basic commands, and just copy and paste commands from the internet (or re-clone, and copy files over). Git is not easy to learn.

chinhodado 10y ago
git is definitely not easy to learn, especially to those who are new to version control. You need to know at least a dozen terms (repo commit push pull fetch clone stage stash fork pull-request etc.) before you can even get a basic understanding of what git is.