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Schoolchildren can write documents. They can't write software with many authors creating disparate, conflicting changes across vast space and time. Complaining
by thrwyoilarticle 6y ago
Schoolchildren can write documents. They can't write software with many authors creating disparate, conflicting changes across vast space and time. Complaining that git is too hard is claiming this is easy.
- IshKebab 6y agoThe parts of it that involve Git are easy. By far the most difficult thing is resolving merge conflicts, but Git farms that out to third party software, and nobody here is talking about that. The core idea of Git - a DAG of repo snapshots - can be explained in like 5 minutes. I could explain all of the other operations in 5 more minutes. Maybe I should do a `Git in 10 minutes` video, but there are about a million of those already, and as I said, it wouldn't address the actual hard part of Git: the CLI.