Re:Git-SIM: Visually simulate Git operations in your own rep...
by bornfreddy on Sunday January 22, 2023 @03:59PM
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My issue with gui is that sometimes I need to work with git in terminal, over ssh, so I need to know it. Once I learned it, what's the point of using a gui? [0]
[0] there is one operation where gui is more convenient for me - exploring branches in gui or GitLab ("repository -> graph") has no equivalent in cli that I know of (interestingly, GitHub doesn't have that either, but many gui tools do).
Re:Git-SIM: Visually simulate Git operations in your own rep...
by IshKebab on Monday January 23, 2023 @03:23AM
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> Once I learned it, what's the point of using a gui?
The first point is that it makes it easier to learn the concept of Git, which is most of the difficulty. Yes Git's CLI is really terrible, but if you know the concepts you can mostly just google the CLI options and learn through repetition.
The second point is that GUIs make it easier to see the state of the repo. There's a reason that even the CLI includes a basic GUI. Don't tell me you never use `git log --oneline --decorate=all --graph`.
Re:Git-SIM: Visually simulate Git operations in your own rep...
by bornfreddy on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:14PM
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I don't, but I'll try it, thanks! TIL. :)
I’ll take a look at Git Extensions, thanks for the recommendation! Some of our devs took to using the integration with VS Code, which I didn’t like because I didn’t understand how its terminology (e.g. “sync” mapped to underlying Git operations). Others tried the Git GUI which I found very confusing.
I focused on the graphical operations and then tried to show them what commands they could run to execute those operations. Next time I’m in the situation, maybe I’ll adopt a GUI-first approach.