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Why don't people use git properly? (deadsimpletech.com)
submitted 1 week ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/git@programming.dev
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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you mean to ask what that means, it's that for development you start a branch and either do everything in one commit, or do everything in several, but each time you git commit --amend so that a history is overwritten and in the end it is only one commit still

[–] whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I understand. Just... y tho

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Because less merge conflicts (we also rebase on top of master each time we commit)