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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: 0.205s | 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. taberiand ◴[16 Jan 25 22:02 UTC] No.42731485[source]▶
I advocate this with every newbie to git - find a UI that works for you and use it over the cli. Barely anyone listens though, and then they struggle with the cli and make a mess of their branches and fall out of date with main and are scared of rebasing and have many other issues that are solvable with a drag and drop or similar in a UI. I figure it's a sort of masochism.