lennartregebro

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by lennartregebro 14y ago
And that simile also has nothing to do with what happened. First of all, this is not a matter of me doing something wrong because I didn't learn enough of gits internals or didn't understand the cryptic the error message. The problem is tha
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by lennartregebro 14y ago
To be honest, none of the issues I've seen are in any way dependent on workflow. That pull and push by default work on different branches is not a matter of workflow, it's a confusing inconsistency. That it deletes history without somebody
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by lennartregebro 14y ago
That's interesting, and maybe I'll try that in the future. But just as with the "matching" vs "current" why is the default here the thing that is guaranteed to cause problems, instead of what people expect? My point is not that git is impos
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by lennartregebro 14y ago
Sure, which is why I made a backup first. I didn't lose any data. I'm just ranting about what is some of the bad things with git.
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by lennartregebro 14y ago
No, git is not hard because it's powerful. It's hard because it's defaults are non-sensical, and it's user interface are neither close enough to how it's internal mechanics to be predictable, but not far enough from the internal mechanics t
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by lennartregebro 14y ago
It's nice to know things have improved. Apparently they will also remove the stupid "matching" default on push in version 2. But I think that pull and push still will not do exactly the same in choice what to pull and push even in version 2
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by lennartregebro 14y ago
Sure, that's OK. But shouldn't that command be explicit ?
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by lennartregebro 14y ago
You are of course correct. However on Gits' homepage: "Git is a free and open source distributed version control system".
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by lennartregebro 14y ago
No the message is rather: "If you press this button, the engine will vanish", and when you then look under the hood, it turns out the car never had an engine, it was a little dwarf pedalling and making engine noises. I think you may agree t
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by lennartregebro 14y ago
A revision control system that can lose history is a fundamentally flawed revision control system. (Note that lose history is not the same as explicitly delete certain revisions). The error message is basically saying "Please remember that