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Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations by emodendroket on Monday December 18, 2017 @08:03PM (#15956954)
The GitHub desktop client is very limited and seems mostly geared toward a lone developer or small team who has never used git before. In this context I think it's a reasonable decision to use a more common verb.
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Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations by craftyguy on Monday December 18, 2017 @10:49PM (#15957590)
Nope. That does no one any good. Using git verbage would, at the very least, acclimate them to very common terminology used by the rest of the folks they will eventually encounter.
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Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations by emodendroket on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @06:35AM (#15959422)
Well, I disagree, because the alternative for many is probably no source control.
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Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations by craftyguy on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:30PM (#15967061)
Folks writing production crap would opt for no source control? Well, fair enough I guess. But I (and probably most competent sw engineering folks) would never hire someone who was completely oblivious to using source control. So hopefully that 'practice' would die through attrition.
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Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations by emodendroket on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:11AM (#15970795)
You've got to meet people where they are. Someone who is familiar with how git works is going to find the git GUI client way too limiting to seriously consider using it, whatever verb they use for the push function.
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