I've been using git extension in Vscode for a long time so just clicking (to commit, push,...) I do only use commands if it's something complicated that I look for and follow, but now I found myself kind of don't remember the basic commands of git and it's kind of disturbing me a little bit and I don't know if there are people in my case? or is it for you a bad thing or it doesn't matter?
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You can always use Google so it doesn't matter, but perhaps at least memorize the basic commands, it will save you some time whenever you are forced to use the CLI :)
I've used it for 5 years and I still can't remember them (I Google "undo last commit" every time).
Git solves a difficult technical problem, but the UX is pretty terrible.
In my opinion that's also the reason why it never took off outside the domain of software development.
if you stuck anywhere just search on google. We are human not like a robot so we are a great animal who is always forgetting without practice.
Not really, I google it all the time. As long as you're aware of what a command is going to do before running it, I think it's fine.
No one remembers everything.
Forgetting how isn't a problem. Not doing something because you don't want to look it up is.
Being aware something is possible is most important.
But you said basic commands. If you have a way, then you don't need to force yourself into a different way. However, I do believe the tools you choose for convenience will influence your choice on other things.
Using VS for Git makes it hard to do line by line commits, rebaseing and other useful things.
Yeah that happens when I had to do something like pretty complexe in it I do first look at a Vs git solution than if I struggle or I don't find than I go to commands
We prefer to use Tower. Git commands are yucky - and we have more confidence when we can see what is happening instead of working with a black box.
Never knew about that, thank you 👌
It's very natural to not remember something that it's not used constantly. I personally use VSCode for everything except for Git, I prefer to do that all from the command line because somethings Code messes up something and then I have to go in and figure out what happened.
I actually very recently posted about some Git commands and several tricks I've picked up lately. Shameless plug.
Git yourself some cool new tricks
Juan F Gonzalez ・ Sep 12 ・ 7 min read
Well said bro
I'm the same. Although, I just bookmark this and check it out when I need to remember something - education.github.com/git-cheat-she... 🍎
OH pretty good cheat, I'm stealing it ;)