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Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations by Pxtl on Monday December 18, 2017 @11:31AM (#15952809)
I use both - to me the big advantage of getting used to GIT CLI is that you learn the tools to handle uncommon operations and automate tasks, which the GUI doesn't give you. When you need to start piping stuff through grep, for example.
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Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations by cytzol on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:40PM (#15953469)
GUI user here. Genuine question: when would you need to pipe stuff through grep? I get it would be a rare situation, but I can't think of one.
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Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations by Pxtl on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:55PM (#15953614)
We have a naming convention that feature branches are named "feature-[descriptionOfFeature]" here and I wanted to bulk-delete all the merged feature branches that developers had left dangling, without killing the release branches and the like. Grepping helped there.

Like I said, super-rare situation.

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