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.

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[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.

      • Thorry84@feddit.nlEnglish
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        11 months 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.

    • Magnetar@feddit.deEnglish
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      11 months ago

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

  • koorool@feddit.deEnglish
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    11 months 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.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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      11 months 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.

    • JoYo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      I used hg until python switched to git.

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

  • Bilbo Baggins@hobbit.worldEnglish
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    11 months 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.

  • freamon@endlesstalk.orgEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I literally did this yesterday.

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