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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So you're going to git gud?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if u ever get a tricky merge conflict, just git push --force. this automatically works out the right code to keep (your own)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, a way to never have to work again!

[–] Nahdahar 8 points 1 year ago

Except if you're an employer in a very small company.

Source: my boss did this at the first company I worked at.

[–] TeaHands 65 points 1 year ago

Highly recommend bookmarking https://ohshitgit.com, it'll steer you right 👍

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. git pull
  2. git reset --hard HEAD
  3. try not to cry
  4. cry a lot
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

git reflog, you can get your old commits back

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I want to pretend none of this ever happened.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
git can we just pretend the last 30 minutes never happened

I feel like that would get more use than people want to admit.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

lemme rebase the main branch onto my branch.

two minutes later

1 merge conflict of 57 [abort] [continue]

[–] affiliate 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this is easily fixed by copy pasting the files into a new directory and never opening git again out of fear

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Project managers hate this one weird trick!

[–] kamen 7 points 1 year ago

One key thing that can help you wrap your head around rebasing is that branches get switched while you're doing it; so, say you're on branch feature and do git rebase master, for any merge conflict, whatever's marked "current" will be on master and what's "incoming" is from feature.

There's also git rerere that should in theory remember a resolution you do between two branches and reuse it every time after the first; I've rarely used it in practice; it would happen for long lived branches that don't get merged.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Pro tip: If your code gets flogged by git, you can always get revenge with git reflog 😉

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Learning git is very easy. For example, to do it on Debain, one simply needs to run, sudo apt install lazygit

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

LazyGit may actually be black magic from Satan to tempt programmers into sin. And to that I say: 'where is a goat I can sacrifice to my dark lord?'

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

Wow this looks great. Amend an old commit dealing with a rebase? Sign me up!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

git rebase -i origin/main (or whatever branch you're rebasing on), then read the instructions that come up in the editor window

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Read… instructions? I love teaching people that git very often prints out what you should do next.

git: “to continue, resolve conflicts, add files, and run rebase —continue”
dev: …time to search stack overflow

All that said… just use lazygit. It does help to know CLI git first to put things in context, but if you do, no need to punish yourself every day by not using a UI.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Git is a great invention but it has a few design flaws. There are too many ways to confuse it or break it, using commands that look correct, or just forgetting something. I ended up writing simple wrapper script codebase to fix it. Since then no problems.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It was conceived for experts so the new user experience is shit and the UI is not intuitive. But it has become such a widespread standard that it is very hard to completely overhaul the UI.

[–] sheogorath 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TBH compared to the old versioning system people used to use like SVN and Mercurial. Git is a godsend. Just taking your time in learning and not using a GUI client works wonders in learning how it works. Especially when all the GUI clients are basically a collection of commands being executed so if you fuck things up on CLI you know what happened vs using GUI.

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

Even for experts the user experience is shit. Too much has to be done manually when the default should be automatic, like fetching before pull, recursing when working with repos that use submodules, allowing mismatched casing on case insensitive filesystems, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This has been the best git tutorial I’ve come across so far. Nicely interactive and gamified. https://learngitbranching.js.org/

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[–] Skullgrid 12 points 1 year ago

...not by choice, because if I don't I'll lose my job

[–] doppelgangmember 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just rebase your life already

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It's what americans from a rural area say when they want you to go away.

[–] EpicFailGuy 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is what people who don't know vim and rsync have to use to mimic 1% of our power

[–] kaffiene 4 points 1 year ago

I just did myself an eye injury due to rolling them so much

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

A very complicated way to do

My project
My project (1)
My project WORKING
My project (2)
My project (2) (1)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Great meme, and I'm sure op knows this, but for anyone else who is curious...

007 in theory means:

  • 00: you have already committed your code to your local code base
  • 7: When you try to merge your code with everyone else's there are 7 files that others have worked on since you last refreshed your local code base.

To resolve this, you need to go file by file and compare your changes with the changes on the remote code. You need to keep the changes others have made and incorporate your own.

You can use git diff file_name to see the differences.

If you have made small changes, it's easier to pull and force an overwrite of your local code and make changes again.

However multiple people working on the same files is usually a sign of organizational issues with management. Ie, typically you don't want multiple people working on the same files at the same time, to avoid stuff like this.

If you're not sure, ask someone that knows what they're doing before you follow any advice on Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

sccs, rcs, cvs... after that it's a blur of new systems every year or two

[–] kautau 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

sccs

1973

rcs

1982

git

2005

How long are your years?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe they're born on a leap year...

And a dog?

[–] pelya 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Subversion is as good as it can get with centralized version control system.

CVS is only one step up above FTP file server for all your code.

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

If you can't use git I don't see how you're gonna do with other things. It's dead simple.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Solving merge conflicts or rebasing is not simple

[–] lightnegative 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do it enough times and it stops being scary.

Using a tool like VSCode to perform the actual merges on individual files also helps because it shows what "yours" and "theirs" changes are from a user perspective, not a git perspective

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If it was dead simple you wouldn't need to learn 10 new concepts and google commands regularly even after using it for a couple of years. You probably forgot how you struggled at first. I have taught it multiple times and I see how beginners struggle.

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

I would actually say it's VERY complicated but in daily work you probably need like 5 commands and those aren't hard at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So many orphaned branches... Poor things.

[–] kaffiene 3 points 1 year ago

This week? I've been using it for years and I'm still learning it

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