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xkcd #1597: Git (imgs.xkcd.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Jakylla to c/[email protected]
 

Title text: If that doesn't fix it, git.txt contains the phone number of a friend of mine who understands git. Just wait through a few minutes of 'It's really pretty simple, just think of branches as...' and eventually you'll learn the commands that will fix everything.


Transcript[Cueball points to a computer on a desk while Ponytail and Hairy are standing further away behind an office chair.]

Cueball: This is git. It tracks collaborative work on projects through a beautiful distributed graph theory tree model.
Ponytail: Cool. How do we use it?
Cueball: No idea. Just memorize these shell commands and type them to sync up. If you get errors, save your work elsewhere, delete the project, and download a fresh copy.


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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If my colleagues mess something up in their fancy GUIs, they come to me to fix it in the terminal.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My experience is the opposite. A colleague who uses SourceTree and git console (for use cases not covered by SourceTree) asked me a few times to fix his branches when something went wrong (after using git console). I easily fixed it using SmartGit (paid software).