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We all have been there... For the beginner it's easy to mess things up. What are your horror stories with Git?
Those first couple months learning git... yeah, it is weird, but once it clicks... you'll be surprised how truly simple it is.
The programming world would be awful without it
Learning git was like every other cool tech thing for me (including the fediverse). People explain it in such a convoluted way. It’s like they think you want to understand the deep theory of it before you get up and running!
Yes, git is more than just a “save box”, but really, new users should absolutely just think about it as a save box. Learn the fancy shit later.
Honestly this is me. At this point I really should know better but I dont, and every tuorial seems to be speaking a whole new language. Any tips for where to learn this?
Joined on a project and the unsupervised junior devs had branches for each developer, even if they were working on the same features. They were copying and pasting each others code into their personal branches to stay up to date.
Spaghetti commits took a while to unwind.
Not really a horror story because I fixed it with reflog, but it was a bit of a shock when we all suddenly couldn't push to the dev branch. Turns out one of the devs, who insists Git is just like SVN, decided to delete dev and push, and ignore the warnings. Apparently that's OK in SVN.
As an old programmer who has used git since Linus whipped it up over one frenzied weekend after his spat with the evil BitKeeper and who has studied its mysteries since before most of you were born ... yeah just delete the damn project and download a new version.
I've often ended up guessing what things do and messing things up.
One example is when I couldn't remember the difference between git checkout -b and git checkout -B, so in my infinite wisdom I decided to use -B because surely capital letters are better! Tried using it to switch back to a branch, and... Yeah, that was annoying.