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Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations by Cthulhu_ on Monday December 18, 2017 @11:01AM (#15952514)
Name me any software that doesn't need a guide like this.

like, how do you even exit vim? You need a guide for that. Or to get it closer to git / this guide, how do you undo / redo?

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Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations by oblio on Monday December 18, 2017 @11:22AM (#15952721)
You're comparing git to vim in terms of ease of use...
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Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations by SAI_Peregrinus on Monday December 18, 2017 @01:12PM (#15953768)
That's actually a rather good comparison. Both have learning cliffs of doom[1]but once you've spent a few months with them they're arguably more powerful than the other options. They're usually fast to use but very hard to learn. I wouldn't say either one is easy though.

[1] https://dementiagaming.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/learning_...

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Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations by oblio on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:38PM (#15956146)
That's debatable. I don't think anyone has actually made any study which proves that git is superior to Mercurial or that vim is superior to Notepad++ or Sublime.
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