Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory

Re:Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory by Kaotique on Sunday February 21, 2016 @10:10AM (#11144771)

The CLI is a complete mystery and that makes it hard to explain to people. Most of the commands and arguments differ so much that it makes little sense. Delete a branch, commit or tag in a similar way; the commands to do this are totally different.

How Git works can be easily drawn out on paper to explain it to someone. The branches, commits and merges is simple to draw.

When we lose sense of our state we always take a piece of paper and draw it out. Most of the time you can just figure it out what's up.

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Re:Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory by matt4077 on Sunday February 21, 2016 @10:21AM (#11144819)

Yeah, I used to race through svn workflows without a second thought. With svn, I still don't understand how to (just one example) throw away all the local changes. (No, not git reset --hard. At least that didn't work when I last tried).

It came to the point where I thought about spending a week just learning git to defend my berd creds.

Instead, I just use a gui for anything beyond add/comit/push. I still don't like not to understand one of my daily tools, but I have real work to do.

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Re:Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory by barrkel on Sunday February 21, 2016 @07:51PM (#11147558)

I found I had to build a whole parallel patch management system to rationally deal with svn. Applying the same patch in multiple branches was a royal PITA in svn; in git, it's trivial.

git status will tell you how to throw away local changes, btw. Depending on the kinds of changes (e.g. edit/delete added, staged or not) need different commands.

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Re:Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory by novel on Sunday February 21, 2016 @09:31PM (#11148020)

Beware, once you learn some of the git useful patterns and features, most likely you'll start feeling very uncomfortable when you have to go back to svn ;)

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