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[-] jadero@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I am in a perpetual wonderland of git confusion, but this was a good read. And maybe I now have a pathway to enlightenment.

[-] robinm@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

If you try to learn git one command at a time on the fly, git is HARD. If you take the time to understand its internal data structure it's much, much easier to learn. Unfortunalely most people try to do the former because it works well (or better) for most tasks.

I can't recommand enough the git parable.

[-] jadero@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Thanks. I guess it's the perpetual problem of learning something new. Instead of starting at the beginning, we trick ourselves into thinking that we can skip the fundamentals. Then we have difficulty and think that the problem is one of complexity or just over our heads instead of our approach.

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

In fairness, sometimes it is useful to get hands on experience with a system before you dig into its fundamentals so that you have a reference point that helps you absorb the information.

[-] fhoekstra@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

https://learngitbranching.js.org Is a very accessible browser game that I found useful on my Git journey to start to grasp the underlying structures and operations such as rebase.

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