Git Shouldn't Be So Hard To Learn

Posted by shawndumas on Friday September 20, 2013 @04:05PM
from the think-like-a-git.net dept.

http://think-like-a-git.net/sections/about-this-site/why-this-site.html

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Re:Git Shouldn't Be So Hard To Learn by Choronzon on Friday September 20, 2013 @05:37PM (#6420663)

Git has a horrendous user interface design,only mitigated by systems like github which manage to abstract much of the inconsistent logic of the interface from the user. Torvalds may well be an excellent coder but I wonder how this lack of "taste" for a better word has effected the linux project itself.

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Re:Git Shouldn't Be So Hard To Learn by jmulho on Friday September 20, 2013 @06:10PM (#6420834)

One guy writing the internals of git: conceptual integrity. One thousand guys writing the so-called "porcelain" of git: conceptual dyslexiphrenia. Open source may be great for fixing bugs. It's apparently not so great for designing interfaces.

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Re:Git Shouldn't Be So Hard To Learn by captaincrowbar on Friday September 20, 2013 @08:12PM (#6421326)

I'm trying to become more comfortable with git, but I'm afraid I found this site a waste of time. It's not the concepts that make git hard to learn - it's memorising all those bloody commands.

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Re:Git Shouldn't Be So Hard To Learn by wnevets on Friday September 20, 2013 @06:22PM (#6420894)

This video http://2010.osdc.com.au/proposal/196/git-ages-4-and from http://think-like-a-git.net/sections/git-makes-more-sense-wh... was very helpful.

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Re:Git Shouldn't Be So Hard To Learn by jessaustin on Friday September 20, 2013 @10:48PM (#6421780)

Apparently this is important: References Make Commits Reachable.

[EDIT] Actually this is a great resource. Very clear thinking and explanations.

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Re:Git Shouldn't Be So Hard To Learn by wat0 on Friday September 20, 2013 @07:52PM (#6421261)

It's not hard...

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Re:Git Shouldn't Be So Hard To Learn by krapp on Friday September 20, 2013 @07:59PM (#6421285)

That's subjective. Many programmers would probably have a difficult time even understanding what git is, much less how to use it. Once you get over that hump, sure, the basics are fine, make repo, add files, branch, push. Anything beyond that suddenly becomes arcane magic.

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