Title text: If that doesn’t fix it, git.txt contains the phone number of a friend of mine who understands git. Just wait through a few minutes of ‘It’s really pretty simple, just think of branches as…’ and eventually you’ll learn the commands that will fix everything.

Transcript

[Cueball points to a computer on a desk while Ponytail and Hairy are standing further away behind an office chair.]

Cueball: This is git. It tracks collaborative work on projects through a beautiful distributed graph theory tree model.
Ponytail: Cool. How do we use it?
Cueball: No idea. Just memorize these shell commands and type them to sync up. If you get errors, save your work elsewhere, delete the project, and download a fresh copy.

  • koorool@feddit.deEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I’m using Mercurial for the last 2 years at current company, before that it was 5-7 years of Git on various jobs. It’s so much better if you use it correctly (no long-living or big branches). I forgot what hell Git was sometimes.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I have used Mercurial at work for years, and Git for side projects. I screw up far less often in Mercurial, and its tools are easy to use. It’s strange how thoroughly Git took over.

        • mamotromicoEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          GitHub acquisition was fairly recent compared to how long git seems to be the standard

    • JoYoEnglish
      52·
      1 year ago

      I used hg until python switched to git.

      if python isn’t going to bother them the battle is lost.