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We’re not all working at $bigcorp with dedicated help teams. Sites like this are great and have helped me many times!

by 1over137 2y ago

doubled112 2y ago
What happens when you are the help team and it's the first time something goes wrong?
- antithesis-nl 2y ago
  A 'team', by definition, consists of more people than 'you.' And, by the time a '#githelp team' is formed, it's to address patterns to which there are known solutions. One of the many problems with Git, is that these solutions depend very, very much on the structure of the repo and the common practices of its users. So, instead of executing random commands from the Internet, just ask. Please! Or, if there's truly nobody going to be around, give in and recreate the repo. You'll save yourself so much pain in the long run...
  - recursive 2y ago
    > A 'team', by definition, consists of more people than 'you.' I'm the resident git expert, but not by choice. There's more that I don't know than that I do. It's not uncommon that I need to use internet recipes to un-wedge someone's clone. > Or, if there's truly nobody going to be around, give in and recreate the repo. You'll save yourself so much pain in the long run... This is insane. There are a dozen other people using the remote, not to mention a whole CI/CD build configuration.
antithesis-nl 2y ago
OK, so you've truly screwed up your your personal/small-team repos to the point of requiring poorly-understood command sequences from the Notoriously Reliable Internet more than once? I applaud you for your honesty, but... Really?
- jazzyjackson 2y ago
  Bro, really, self-taught people with a bare minimum understanding of the tools they use are super normal, and when they get into a pit they have to fix it themselves. Although to your point folks would be better served carefully reading the docs / git book than googling a specific solution to their specific error code.
  - antithesis-nl 2y ago
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    - jazzyjackson 2y ago
      I guess we're coming from different places. In my vernacular, ending a comment with "...really?" is about as casual as calling somebody bro. It's gender neutral btw.
      - leptons 2y ago
        "Bro" is the furthest thing from "gender neutral". Not sure how you could think it's gender neutral. It originated from male behavior and is definitely not gender neutral. You can address women as "bro" and they might even respond to you but they'll think you're absolutely weird.
        jazzyjackson 2y ago
        "bro", "bruh", it's more of an exclamation of surprise than a title conferred to the person being addressed, but even then, I don't know, people call folks "auntie" and "uncle" who aren't actually their auntie and uncle. language is flexible. it may reference the kind of fraternity between brothers but that feeling is not limited to the male sex.
        kstrauser 2y ago
        Can confirm. It sounds so weird to me, but I hear my kids and their friends call each other "bro" or "bruh" all the time, regardless of gender.

We’re not all working at $bigcorp with dedicated help teams. Sites like this are great and have helped me many times!

doubled112 2y ago

What happens when you are the help team and it's the first time something goes wrong?

antithesis-nl 2y ago
A 'team', by definition, consists of more people than 'you.' And, by the time a '#githelp team' is formed, it's to address patterns to which there are known solutions. One of the many problems with Git, is that these solutions depend very, very much on the structure of the repo and the common practices of its users. So, instead of executing random commands from the Internet, just ask. Please! Or, if there's truly nobody going to be around, give in and recreate the repo. You'll save yourself so much pain in the long run...
- recursive 2y ago
  > A 'team', by definition, consists of more people than 'you.' I'm the resident git expert, but not by choice. There's more that I don't know than that I do. It's not uncommon that I need to use internet recipes to un-wedge someone's clone. > Or, if there's truly nobody going to be around, give in and recreate the repo. You'll save yourself so much pain in the long run... This is insane. There are a dozen other people using the remote, not to mention a whole CI/CD build configuration.

antithesis-nl 2y ago

OK, so you've truly screwed up your your personal/small-team repos to the point of requiring poorly-understood command sequences from the Notoriously Reliable Internet more than once? I applaud you for your honesty, but... Really?

jazzyjackson 2y ago
Bro, really, self-taught people with a bare minimum understanding of the tools they use are super normal, and when they get into a pit they have to fix it themselves. Although to your point folks would be better served carefully reading the docs / git book than googling a specific solution to their specific error code.
- antithesis-nl 2y ago
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  - jazzyjackson 2y ago
    I guess we're coming from different places. In my vernacular, ending a comment with "...really?" is about as casual as calling somebody bro. It's gender neutral btw.
    - leptons 2y ago
      "Bro" is the furthest thing from "gender neutral". Not sure how you could think it's gender neutral. It originated from male behavior and is definitely not gender neutral. You can address women as "bro" and they might even respond to you but they'll think you're absolutely weird.
      - jazzyjackson 2y ago
        "bro", "bruh", it's more of an exclamation of surprise than a title conferred to the person being addressed, but even then, I don't know, people call folks "auntie" and "uncle" who aren't actually their auntie and uncle. language is flexible. it may reference the kind of fraternity between brothers but that feeling is not limited to the male sex.
        kstrauser 2y ago
        Can confirm. It sounds so weird to me, but I hear my kids and their friends call each other "bro" or "bruh" all the time, regardless of gender.