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Oh Shit, Git?

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464 points Anon84 | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 1.242s | source
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SebastianKra ◴[16 Jan 25 20:29 UTC] No.42730483[source]▶
We should start recommending UIs as the default way to learn Git. It would solve a third of these problems and another third wouldn't even come up.

If you later decide that the CLI is faster, go ahead. But first, people need to see visually how they can interact with the tree.

I like fork.dev, but most clients are pretty similar at this point.

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1. globular-toast ◴[16 Jan 25 21:44 UTC] No.42731315[source]▶
As a magit user I agree, apart from the fact most GUIs I've seen are horrendously broken and can lead to an even worse mess. For example, I was really confused about how a colleague messing up and got them to show me. Turns out in VS Code if you set the upstream branch correctly (ie. to master), it tries to get you to "sync" the branch. So it assumes the upstream branch is the branch you push to, which makes no sense at all.