Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by vin047 on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:22PM (#23806128)

I’ve yet to find a good intro doc that explains how git works conceptually. There are too few visual examples with authors assuming that users already understand the basic concepts like commits. To people who are completely new to version control, git can appear nonsensical.

Funnily enough I think Atlassian/Bitbucket comes close to a good intro doc to git on their site complete with a visual guide. I still found it inaccessible to people totally new to the basic concepts though.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by ohhhwell on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:58PM (#23806462)

I've found the git branching game to be quite helpful in building a visual mental model https://learngitbranching.js.org/

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by kubanczyk on Saturday July 11, 2020 @07:23PM (#23807095)

No, this one is good (I'd say I regard it as canonical!), but only if you know how commit works on a conceptual level. It is not targeted at absolute beginners.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by tryptophan on Saturday July 11, 2020 @06:58PM (#23806914)

I found this one to be pretty good:

https://www.sbf5.com/~cduan/technical/git/git-1.shtml

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by bacon_waffle on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:52PM (#23806415)

Have you seen this one? https://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/

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