Ben Halpern

Posted on Feb 10, 2020

The fact that I barely know how to use git has been biting me in the butt a lot lately 😭

#git #watercooler

Easily the weakest part of my dev game is git, which is probably the most universally important tool to know.

I've been painting myself into frustrating git corners lately and I think I need to expand the number of commands I truly understand.

Thank you for listing ❤️

Latest comments (18)

Spyros Argalias • Mar 3 '20 • Edited

Sorry, I know this is a month old post...

Reading through the Atlassian git tutorials (which took me a bit under a weekend) was really good. I went from beginner user to understanding git very well for all work purposes.

You can get anything else you need from Google.

For context, whenever my colleagues had git questions they usually came to me or one other developer. Either of us could always answer their questions.

The next resource on my list is Pro Git, I've heard good things about it. However it's very low priority at the moment because the Atlassian tutorials gave me pretty much all I need in terms of Git knowledge.

Simon Massey • Feb 14 '20

I can highly recommend reading Git From The Bottom Up.

Sean Allin Newell • Feb 11 '20

Ben; I believe in you!

Brian Olore • Feb 11 '20

ohshitgit.com/ is a must have reference!

Patryk • Feb 10 '20 • Edited

Same. Haven't had any major accidents in years, thankfully, but it's cryptic for sure.

I quite enjoyed this talk: Rules to git by. It probably won't help with your issues, but if you've got 45 minutes to spare, it's worth a watch.

Phil Nash • Feb 10 '20

cd ..
rm -rf project
git clone PROJECT_REPO
cd project
# start again

I've done this too many times in my life.

Pandademic • Jan 25 '22

who hasn't?

Waylon Walker • Feb 19 '20

Me too

AmberJ • Feb 10 '20

OhShit,Git!?! has saved me more than once

Zachary Stone • Feb 13 '20

Don't mind me I am just bookmarking this for later...

Manuel Ojeda • Feb 10 '20

There is not shame on it, I been using it since late 2017, is better late than never.
Also is recommend to focus learning to use it through CLI instead of desktop, there is more power via CLI 🤘

Brandin Chiu • Feb 10 '20

A great way to learn is by getting started with a git client. Then extrapolate what you're doing. Some clients will even show logs of the commands that get run when you push the buttons.