I've been using Git for a dozen years. Eight years ago, I had to give a training session on Git (and GitHub) to a partner company about to create a...
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damn.. I thought this would make a nice quick lunch break read, but there is so much to unpack here, I'm going to have to bookmark this and come back to it later this evening.
FWIW, I've been using Git myself for well over a decade already, many times needing to help explain the system to other people.. with that said, just skimming through the first few paragraphs I can tell that even I still have a lot to learn about it...
Finally some good quality post on dev.to.
I would add also add some helper tools, for example to improve experience of logging (like cdiff) or for interactive rebasing (git-interactive-rebase-tool), changing the default editor used, maybe mention signing commits (with PGP for example). Besides that: awesome.
Holy poop! DEFINITELY bookmarking this so I can refer back to it with juniors and even intermediate users. Excellent descriptions especially of cherry pick and rebasing. Damn fine content, thank you for it!
Abandon all hope ye who enter here thinking this will teach you Git real quick. Go look for a cheatsheet or something.
Great read though, been using Git for 10+ years and I still got a lot from it just skim reading. Quality post!
A lot to unpack in the short amount of time I have to read. The title image made git understandable in 30 seconds. This will be bookmarked for review later.
Yes, I really like that image, and all of Mark Lodato's Visual Git Reference: marklodato.github.io/visual-git-gu...
You'll quickly see I only link to 3 learning sources, and that one is much more "joyful" than Pro Git for similar diagrams.
Thanks, that has been bookmarked!
This is very informative. I remember printing the git fetch / push flow diagram and paste it on my cubicle when I started learning Git. Changing the mental model from Subversion to Git was one of the main challenge.
I always refer learngitbranching.js.org/?locale=e... to my colleagues & juniors.
I've taught git to engineers and tech writers at Intel and in User Group Meetings in Arizona. How I teach git to Windows users with git bash. 1. Have high hopes 2. Have those hopes crushed 3. Keep explaining what a terminal is. 4. Instruct commands over and over. 5. No... not the command prompt - Git bash! It takes time, but even a novice can get it... Now resolving conflicts... CI/CD... yea. It's a process.
I am not saying they were bad but where I learnt Git and VCS they never mentioned any of that. Matter of fact we had to learn hashes on our own and now that I am seeing hashes being an integral part of Git and the commits(I never read the documentation at git-scm) I am even more intrigued on how much is hidden with learning git..This is all really great and invaluable information especially for a beginner like me.
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Thank you for these. I will embrace it in my way of teaching git. I discovered that I learn more myself by teaching. The Protégé Effect.
As someone who has a guilty of having a simple work flow and had to do a rebase without knowing what one is.I totally need to bookmark this and re work my understanding of git.
Hi, I think this is an awesome post. I was just wondering if anyone knew how to make captions for images the way he does.
This is HTML actually:
DEV sanitizes the content so you can't put any kind of HTML in your markdown, but
<figure>is one that's accepted.That makes sense, thank you. Is it okay if I use the code in my posts? Also, I just wanted to say, I read some of your other posts and wanted to say that they are well thought out and written. Keep up the good work 👍.
This is interesting
Great Post!
Great article!
There's one thing to improve though - those images are not very readable in dark mode 😅
Nince
This is juicy, thanks for sharing