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May be I was so used to subversion. I understand that git is more flexible and powerful, but it makes me feel dumb. Specially because so many smart people love

• lnguyen 15y ago
  If you haven't seriously used branches before, git can be a bit hard to wrap your head around. And trying to map it back to what you're familiar with in svn adds to the frustration. The best thing to do is create some "play" git repositories and see what happens when you run any command. You can also run "git clone" on local directories to mimic actual remote repositories without having to set anything up. Don't worry about screwing anything up as you can just delete the directory and start over.
  • ColdAsIce 15y ago
    "Don't worry about screwing anything up as you can just delete the directory and start over." Thats a problem. git is version control, you are not, you must not always for every command keep track of whats happening in your directories so you can attempt some magic at resolving problems, and now reverting back to mv and cp for managing something git should do really well. The problem most often is not remote repositories, as you say there should be no distinction if the repo is cloned from a server or from another directory. But there is. And a tons of tutorials all go through hoops to explain remoting vs local stuff.