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Just learn Git. It's really not that bad. Don't _ever_ make someone use Rebase without their understanding of what that really means.

wyclif 4y ago
It is worth the investment to learn advanced Git if you're a software engineer. Start by reading the Chacon book cover to cover. It is a major tool you use every work day, so it's important to understand it.
Someone1234 4y ago
Git like Regular Expressions I've "just learned" half a dozen times already but then forget everything and have to "just learn Git" top-to-bottom again and again. It really is a shame, Git has a great under-the-hood design (excluding poor binary file support), and such a terrible interface/UX that seemingly can never be outright replaced, so we're stuck with a good tool surrounded by needless confusion forever.
- G3rn0ti 4y ago
  The way to get „git“ is to think about version management as a concept i.e. starting top down. It’s the implementation details of git that many developers get confused about. But they don’t matter. It’s similar to recursions: You don’t try to understand a recursive function by mentally evaluating it — instead you reflect on its desired return value and how to construct it in the base case.
- seba_dos1 4y ago
  My experience is that once you understand the (high level) data structure you're manipulating by using git, you have already made 80% of the way there. I barely know basics of git's interface and have to use tools like `git gui` for anything more complex in my everyday workflow, yet I can manage just fine even when presented with complicated problems, since once I know from the data structure perspective what I want to do, finding a way to do that in git's interface by searching manpages and/or the Web is hardly ever a big issue.
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Just learn Git. It's really not that bad. Don't _ever_ make someone use Rebase without their understanding of what that really means.

by krossitalk 4y ago

wyclif 4y ago
It is worth the investment to learn advanced Git if you're a software engineer. Start by reading the Chacon book cover to cover. It is a major tool you use every work day, so it's important to understand it.
Someone1234 4y ago
Git like Regular Expressions I've "just learned" half a dozen times already but then forget everything and have to "just learn Git" top-to-bottom again and again. It really is a shame, Git has a great under-the-hood design (excluding poor binary file support), and such a terrible interface/UX that seemingly can never be outright replaced, so we're stuck with a good tool surrounded by needless confusion forever.
- G3rn0ti 4y ago
  The way to get „git“ is to think about version management as a concept i.e. starting top down. It’s the implementation details of git that many developers get confused about. But they don’t matter. It’s similar to recursions: You don’t try to understand a recursive function by mentally evaluating it — instead you reflect on its desired return value and how to construct it in the base case.
- seba_dos1 4y ago
  My experience is that once you understand the (high level) data structure you're manipulating by using git, you have already made 80% of the way there. I barely know basics of git's interface and have to use tools like `git gui` for anything more complex in my everyday workflow, yet I can manage just fine even when presented with complicated problems, since once I know from the data structure perspective what I want to do, finding a way to do that in git's interface by searching manpages and/or the Web is hardly ever a big issue.
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