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To be fair Ive been using for git for 8 years and I still dont quite understand it beyond the basics.

SBArbeit 2y ago
You're not alone. My experience is that about 20% of devs deeply understand Git and are very comfortable with it, and about 80% know the the basics and hope nothing goes wrong. I'm somewhere in the middle myself. That's part of why I designed Grace to be much easier to understand. I can teach it to you in about 15 minutes, not the days and weeks it takes all of us to feel like we understand Git.
chipdart 2y ago
> To be fair Ive been using for git for 8 years and I still dont quite understand it beyond the basics. I don't see why this is supposed to be a problem. What constitutes "the basics" is what you use in your everyday routine, and if that works perfectly well then there is absolutely no need to do something you never need to do.
- fragmede 2y ago
  while I don't judge someone for not knowing past the basics of git because, as you point out, if it works, it works, the very valid fear is that they'll somehow get into a funky state and have to find a git expert to fix it for them, or painfully muddle through it, with the very real fear that their work will get lost somehow. if you know what you're doing, that doesn't happen, but if you're not an expert, it's a very real thing that can happen, so it's that fear that constitutes a problem for some. it's this black box that saves all my hard work, and if it accidentally hit the wrong button, it'll delete all my data and find my kids and scare them as well. I was fortunate enough to dive deep into git professionally so I'm good enough with it to get myself out of trouble, but watching others use it, I can understand their worry.
- andoando 2y ago
  Its gotten me along so I havent bothered, but occasionally I will fall into a mess and I find some improper/inefficient ways around it. Every time I try interwctive rebase I get into a huge mess where it cant apply some updates for some reason and I say f it and just do git reset hard and aoply the commits I want and force push.
karmajunkie 2y ago
if it makes you feel better i’ve been using it ~20 years and still learning…

You're not alone. My experience is that about 20% of devs deeply understand Git and are very comfortable with it, and about 80% know the the basics and hope nothing goes wrong. I'm somewhere in the middle myself. That's part of why I designed Grace to be much easier to understand. I can teach it to you in about 15 minutes, not the days and weeks it takes all of us to feel like we understand Git.

chipdart 2y ago

> To be fair Ive been using for git for 8 years and I still dont quite understand it beyond the basics. I don't see why this is supposed to be a problem. What constitutes "the basics" is what you use in your everyday routine, and if that works perfectly well then there is absolutely no need to do something you never need to do.

fragmede 2y ago
while I don't judge someone for not knowing past the basics of git because, as you point out, if it works, it works, the very valid fear is that they'll somehow get into a funky state and have to find a git expert to fix it for them, or painfully muddle through it, with the very real fear that their work will get lost somehow. if you know what you're doing, that doesn't happen, but if you're not an expert, it's a very real thing that can happen, so it's that fear that constitutes a problem for some. it's this black box that saves all my hard work, and if it accidentally hit the wrong button, it'll delete all my data and find my kids and scare them as well. I was fortunate enough to dive deep into git professionally so I'm good enough with it to get myself out of trouble, but watching others use it, I can understand their worry.
andoando 2y ago
Its gotten me along so I havent bothered, but occasionally I will fall into a mess and I find some improper/inefficient ways around it. Every time I try interwctive rebase I get into a huge mess where it cant apply some updates for some reason and I say f it and just do git reset hard and aoply the commits I want and force push.

karmajunkie 2y ago

if it makes you feel better i’ve been using it ~20 years and still learning…