Beej's Guide to Git

Re:Beej's Guide to Git by juped on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:48PM (#42954886)

Why are programmers so vehemently angry over the fact that a complex tool which does complex things to a complex data structure might have some complexity to it?

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Re:Beej's Guide to Git by zanellato19 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:25PM (#42956182)

"I don't understand this complexity so this means it shouldn't exist"

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Re:Beej's Guide to Git by keithalewis on Monday February 10, 2025 @07:21AM (#42999445)

Linus wrote it, so there's got to be a pony in there somewhere. He's the first person in the world to figure out version control software. /s

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Re:Beej's Guide to Git by solidasparagus on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:53AM (#42960800)

It's the de facto tool for our industry. For the vast majority of cases, users bear the burden of that complexity without gaining much benefit. And (at least for me) it doesn't guarantee the one thing I need it to do - make sure I can never lose progress.

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Re:Beej's Guide to Git by andrewflnr on Thursday February 06, 2025 @12:06PM (#42964309)

The data structure isn't that complex. Most of the things we want to do to it aren't that complex. And yet... https://xkcd.com/1597

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