Re:Commit often, perfect later, publish once: Git best pract...
by avar on Sunday July 04, 2021 @05:12AM
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You're right, for a lot of people it isn't worth it. The linked article contain way more detail than I daresay the vast majority of users of git need to know about these days.
If you're a programmer who heavily uses it in your workflow you might find this sort of advice useful, but I've helped plenty of programmers with some issue in git that wouldn't have required my help if they had even intermediate knowledge of it.
Does that mean that their time would be best spent knowing more about it? Maybe, but maybe not. In some cases I'd say definitely not. A lot of people are productive with it knowing no more than "git status/add/commit/push/pull".
I've got expert-level knowledge on git, but I use plenty of tools that I've got at best a novice or beginner-level amount of knowledge of. You can't know everything. The tricky part is that until you know something you can't know what you're missing.
If you're a programmer who heavily uses it in your workflow you might find this sort of advice useful, but I've helped plenty of programmers with some issue in git that wouldn't have required my help if they had even intermediate knowledge of it.
Does that mean that their time would be best spent knowing more about it? Maybe, but maybe not. In some cases I'd say definitely not. A lot of people are productive with it knowing no more than "git status/add/commit/push/pull".
I've got expert-level knowledge on git, but I use plenty of tools that I've got at best a novice or beginner-level amount of knowledge of. You can't know everything. The tricky part is that until you know something you can't know what you're missing.