Its paid and not FOSS but you can use it without paying but some QOL features are missing. boot.dev . Its full backend course btw. There are 2 git course. Basic and advanced.
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Haha, this was the first tutorial I was given, though for the reasons you mentioned I didnt follow it. Seems good tho😅
I saw a browser game somewhere that taught vim keys/motions
Ohh that'd be a fun thing to do in the future
Vim seems powerful, might learn it better one day
Thank you, I was just looking into what git is and what I could use it for
It's a version control system, in the absolute broadest sense of the word. You can look at the version of your code, you had yesterday. And your mate can create their own version of your code, which they can later send to you and you can combine it with your version.
So, in some sense, it's a time machine and in the other sense, it's the basis for how collaboration in software development works at all.
It's not at all gamified or fancy, but I find the official documentation to be excellent - a step well above the norm these days.
Bonus: Downloadable as an epub or pdf, creative commons license, and regularly updated.
Hehe, that's why I added it at the end:) Looks cool indeed
Oh god I'm just starting to learn a little shell and Python and now I find out git isn't just a website with code on it
I reckon ill be using this bookmark for a while...
Just use a UI like vscode or git kraken
Knowing "how to use" the git command line is an exercise in delusion. You will only know the same small piece the UI tools know and if you get in trouble you're going to stack overflow.
Just my 2¢ but disagree on this one. Where GUIs are usually powerful but inflexible, the CLI is both powerful and flexible. And getting into trouble usually means you have a print on the console that tells you exactly what happened and what concept or command to look up.
Matter of opinion and goals I guess, but if you want to understand git as a tool I recommend learning the CLI.
What UIs have you tried? The ones I've used are completely flexible. Checkboxes for days.
A ton, like the ones integrated in many editors/IDEs, GitHub Desktop, the one with the little turtle icon, forgot its name... Using gitk all the time. Don't get me wrong I have nothing against a GUI, just saying I had a much better learning experience with git once I started using the CLI and man pages instead of a GUI and random tutorials for them. It's just a lot more accessible and better documented in my experience.
Ah...so just the bad ones. Tortoisegit is God awful, stuck in 1999. GitHub desktop is barely a client. Etc
Of that set the only one worth any damn is the one build into vscode.
That having been said you just indicated you enjoy reading man pages for the git command line, something literally nobody enjoys. So maybe you are just a special ❄️.
Tortoisegit is God awful, stuck in 1999.
If it works don't fix it. Not that it's my go-to.
you just indicated you enjoy reading man pages
I have indicated that I do it, not that I enjoy it. But yeah, I prefer it to skimming 20 verbose blog posts and outdated Stackoverflow questions to find one that is actually related to my specific use case. And often enough the search results will be online versions of the man pages anyway. Not quite sure why you are so hostile about it, I just said "read the docs" basically.
Probably the worst way to learn git is "as-you-go" in an actual project. Unfortunately that's a common way to start, that's definitely how I started. If I had to learn it again or teach it to somebody else, I'd make a super simple application, like a "Hello World" webpage, and learn and gain confidence with that.
Indeed, I think my next step is to make a test repo on codeberg and play around before using git more seriously