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848 points thefilmore | 1 comments | 13 May 25 05:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.434s | source
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bandrami ◴[13 May 25 06:03 UTC] No.43969975[source]▶
Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.
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ratatoskrt ◴[13 May 25 06:09 UTC] No.43970008[source]▶
To be fair, Git itself is a bit of a pain, and GitHub's main achievement is/was to make it somewhat bearable.
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spookie ◴[13 May 25 06:49 UTC] No.43970187[source]▶
To be fair, most of the its difficulty is realized when you're stuck with a teammate rewriting history. Who, much like anyone anyone doing the same, hasn't bothered reading a book explaining things.
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baq ◴[13 May 25 07:02 UTC] No.43970280[source]▶
If you don't rewrite history in git, I don't want to bisect in your repos.

If you push rewritten history to master, you're a git.

Conclusion: learn your tools.

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mkesper ◴[13 May 25 07:23 UTC] No.43970414[source]▶
The modern workflow is just to let GitHub squeeze yor shit commits into one and then rebasing that.
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1. baq ◴[13 May 25 08:05 UTC] No.43970622[source]▶
Hardly anything modern about it, but it's a way of keeping a somewhat sane history. Certainly better than merging 'fix' 'fix' 'fix comments' into master.

The thing is, we could have done better (and have been) since before git even existed.