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Usually it’s just me trying to do some task and not caring to ever “learn the command” with any depth (because I don’t use it enough for that to be worthwhile).
by baddox 9y ago
Usually it’s just me trying to do some task and not caring to ever “learn the command” with any depth (because I don’t use it enough for that to be worthwhile). That’s why examples are great. I can probably usually just scan the examples and quickly recognize the one that does the thing I want to do.
- baddox 9y agoOf course, sometimes this attitude of mine is a problem. The most obvious example for me is git, which I use nearly every day, but still have an embarrassingly shallow understanding of. Any time something “goes wrong” I’m googling for a magic command to fix it, or resorting to crude measures like copying the whole repo directory and resetting hard.
- Qwertious 9y ago>The most obvious example for me is git, which I use nearly every day, but still have an embarrassingly shallow understanding of. Any time something “goes wrong” I’m googling for a magic command to fix it, This is basically the reason I use Mercurial. It actually makes sense without getting a bloody degree in "how to use your DVCS", and the help is quite nice, and not a godawful clusterfuck like some popular DCVSes that were developed by developers of major FOSS kernels circa 2005.