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GitHub Desktop or Git CLI? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

JetBrains IDEs, I don't remember the last time I used the CLI.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you have forgotten the face of your father

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Linus Torvalds?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was looking for this comment. PHP storm and git are like best friends. I very very rarely need to resort to the CLI and generally that's for hard resetting after I screw something up

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Good luck doing anything remotely complicated/useful in git with an IDE. You get a small fraction of what git can do with a tool that allows absolutely 0 scripting and automation.

[–] calcopiritus 14 points 1 year ago

IDE git is less powerful than CLI git. However I'm pretty confident that most people use more features of git by using a GUI.

CLI feature discoverability is pretty awful, you have to go out of your way and type git help to learn new commands.

With a GUI though, all the buttons are there, you just have to click a new button that you've been seeing for a while and the GUI will guide you how to use it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It sounds like you don't speak from experience. I have all the automation I need. It supports git hooks on top of IDE-only features like code checking.

If I have to fire up my CLI for some mass history rewriting (like changing an author for every commit), or when the repo breaks - so be it. But by not using the CLI I save my fingers and sanity, because committing a bunch of files is several click away with little to no room for error.

I can rebase, patch, drop, rename, merge, revert, cherry pick, and solve conflicts with a click of a button rather than remembering all the commands and whatnot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use the cli, but my main goal is to never have to do anything remotely complicated with git. Does it happen sometimes? Of course.