Re:Giteveryday – A useful minimum set of commands for Everyd...
by whack on Sunday October 30, 2016 @12:37PM
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> "But I disagree with that it would be an acceptable goal in git just to understand a subset of it. You need to understand nearly everything, even the internals. Only then it can really become useful to you."
Sorry, but this is patently false. I've been using git very effectively for years, both as a participant and as a repo admin, have had other Senior Developers call me a "git hacker" and ask me for git help, and I have no idea how the internals of git work. I also use a very small subset of git functionality, and many of the commands in the OP look like greek to me.
I don't doubt that your approach is one way to learn/use git. But learning git as a black box, and using just the parts you need, is perfectly useful as well.
Sorry, but this is patently false. I've been using git very effectively for years, both as a participant and as a repo admin, have had other Senior Developers call me a "git hacker" and ask me for git help, and I have no idea how the internals of git work. I also use a very small subset of git functionality, and many of the commands in the OP look like greek to me.
I don't doubt that your approach is one way to learn/use git. But learning git as a black box, and using just the parts you need, is perfectly useful as well.