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Your Git horror stories (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

We all have been there... For the beginner it's easy to mess things up. What are your horror stories with Git?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.