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Beej's Guide to Git

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1062 points mixto | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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scrapcode ◴[05 Feb 25 01:59 UTC] No.42942555[source]▶
I can't help but feel that Git has completely missed the forest through the trees that you can make a 30+ part guide explaining how to use it.
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juped ◴[05 Feb 25 20:48 UTC] No.42954886[source]▶
Why are programmers so vehemently angry over the fact that a complex tool which does complex things to a complex data structure might have some complexity to it?
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zanellato19 ◴[05 Feb 25 22:25 UTC] No.42956182[source]▶
"I don't understand this complexity so this means it shouldn't exist"
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1. keithalewis ◴[10 Feb 25 12:21 UTC] No.42999445[source]▶
Linus wrote it, so there's got to be a pony in there somewhere. He's the first person in the world to figure out version control software. /s