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xkcd #1597: Git (imgs.xkcd.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works to c/xkcd@lemmy.world
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Title text: If that doesn't fix it, git.txt contains the phone number of a friend of mine who understands git. Just wait through a few minutes of 'It's really pretty simple, just think of branches as...' and eventually you'll learn the commands that will fix everything.

Transcript[Cueball points to a computer on a desk while Ponytail and Hairy are standing further away behind an office chair.]

Cueball: This is git. It tracks collaborative work on projects through a beautiful distributed graph theory tree model.
Ponytail: Cool. How do we use it?
Cueball: No idea. Just memorize these shell commands and type them to sync up. If you get errors, save your work elsewhere, delete the project, and download a fresh copy.

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[-] IndefiniteBen@feddit.nl 23 points 2 years ago

This is helpful when you get errors: https://ohshitgit.com/

[-] Pilon23@feddit.dk 4 points 2 years ago

As someone new to using git.. Thank you!!

[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

I've been using git for 10+ years and still sometimes do this. I know I could fix it, I also pretty much know what to do to fix it. However nuking the thing from orbit and restarting takes like 30 secs, so it's never worth fixing.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Git --gud

[-] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Wrekted 'em!

[-] Bilbo@hobbit.world 17 points 2 years ago

Git is something that is very comfortable to use after a year or two, but when you initially start using it, it is just so easy to mess things up in ways that are unrecoverable. I remember the silly days when I'd back up all my changes first before using git since I would so regularly lose everything through a combination of git commands.

It's easy for me now, but the initial stages punish mistakes severely. It's the dark souls of source control, except it's not really fun. It's just a very beginner unfriendly tool.

[-] luckybipedal@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

IME, to use git effectively, and make sense of the man-pages, you have to know a lot of the internals of how git works. I found it helpful to read "Git from the bottom up" when I had to start using it professionally: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

That looks helpful, thank you.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

SVN gang rise up.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Shit, I lost the thumb drive that has my entire career's output on it.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

There's dozens of us! Dozens!

[-] Woozy@dmv.social 2 points 2 years ago

SCCS represent!

[-] koorool@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

I'm using Mercurial for the last 2 years at current company, before that it was 5-7 years of Git on various jobs. It's so much better if you use it correctly (no long-living or big branches). I forgot what hell Git was sometimes.

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I used hg until python switched to git.

if python isn't going to bother them the battle is lost.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I have used Mercurial at work for years, and Git for side projects. I screw up far less often in Mercurial, and its tools are easy to use. It's strange how thoroughly Git took over.

[-] shastaxc@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

It's not that strange. Microsoft owns GitHub.

[-] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

GitHub acquisition was fairly recent compared to how long git seems to be the standard

[-] Gxost@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

A good GUI can solve most problems.

[-] Magnetar@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

If my colleagues mess something up in their fancy GUIs, they come to me to fix it in the terminal.

[-] freamon@endlesstalk.org 0 points 2 years ago

I literally did this yesterday.

I've since found chats with Bing are surprisingly informative.

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