Re:Learn Git Branching
by encoderer on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @02:21PM
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Why it became popular?
It's like power tools for my code.
Until a better way comes along, we still mostly develop software with code in a bunch of files. And we still mostly depend on the shitty filesystem for all that. That's what Git does. Frees me to some extent from the shitty filesystem.
Personally I think Git is always useful but I reap far, far more dividends on big projects where the forking, branching and merging give me support for software engineering as the social craft that it is.
It's like power tools for my code.
Until a better way comes along, we still mostly develop software with code in a bunch of files. And we still mostly depend on the shitty filesystem for all that. That's what Git does. Frees me to some extent from the shitty filesystem.
Personally I think Git is always useful but I reap far, far more dividends on big projects where the forking, branching and merging give me support for software engineering as the social craft that it is.