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Your Git horror stories (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

We all have been there... For the beginner it's easy to mess things up. What are your horror stories with Git?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was awful. The fact that SVN is still used terrifies me. People are actively choosing to live their lives like that

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

Git was just released while I was in college, and I was in a group project that required us to use SVN. First job was a TFS shop. When git finally matured to the point that it couldn't be ignored anymore, life became much much more sane.

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

Subversion has some features git lacks or lacked for a very long time (I think it has most now). The biggest being able to easily clone and work with a subset of the repository. That's Subversion's entire thing! Don't misunderstand, I prefer git and think it is better.