Re:Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
by Razengan on Saturday August 04, 2018 @10:15PM
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I'll agree about the non-intuitiveness.
I like git, I love the idea behind it, I appreciate the benefits it provides me, and I want to get better at it and I strive to adopt all the commonly-endorsed best practices.
However, with all the slightly different means to ultimately the same ends – merges, rebases, patches, fast-forwards, squashes, fixups, messages, descriptions, notes – it makes me wonder if git is not a Frankenstein's monster by now with too much bolted on to it, that needs to revised from the bottom up and consolidated into a more streamlined interface.
It's kinda telling when all the GUI tools for git do each task slightly differently, and none of the GUIs (that I've tried so far) let you do everything from one app, so I prefer to keep a couple different ones open at all times: https://i.imgur.com/itWE4Gs.png
I like git, I love the idea behind it, I appreciate the benefits it provides me, and I want to get better at it and I strive to adopt all the commonly-endorsed best practices.
However, with all the slightly different means to ultimately the same ends – merges, rebases, patches, fast-forwards, squashes, fixups, messages, descriptions, notes – it makes me wonder if git is not a Frankenstein's monster by now with too much bolted on to it, that needs to revised from the bottom up and consolidated into a more streamlined interface.
It's kinda telling when all the GUI tools for git do each task slightly differently, and none of the GUIs (that I've tried so far) let you do everything from one app, so I prefer to keep a couple different ones open at all times: https://i.imgur.com/itWE4Gs.png