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A lot of people who are starting out using git don’t understand how git works (what a commit is, what a branch is, what you can do to them). And they start to b
by MatthiasPortzel 3y ago
A lot of people who are starting out using git don’t understand how git works (what a commit is, what a branch is, what you can do to them). And they start to blame the CLI tool and start to hope that using the GitHub Desktop app will make everything make sense. This is the most common context where people say “you have to learn the git CLI.”
(Here’s an example from a few days ago from someone who proposes using GitHub Desktop in order to avoid learning git commands: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/15b7pra/should_i_know_git_in_2023_even_there_is_already/ https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/15b7pra/s...)