> The thing I'm saying is counter to the hacker mentality is using a tool as a black box, without understanding what it does and what it is trying to do. You do

> The thing I'm saying is counter to the hacker mentality is using a tool as a black box, without understanding what it does and what it is trying to do. You don't have to read the code and know all the technical details. And I'm saying that this statement is just hustle culture nonsense. > A hacker should be happy to play around with various man pages and commands to build an understanding of what each command really does - and then be able to fearlessly mix and match commands, because they know how they are affecting the repo at each step. No true scotsman would use git without reading books about it! This is just nonsense. Gatekeeping holier than thou nonsense.