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Comment by ninkendo

7 years ago

GitHub's GUI is the worst. It has a "sync" button.

As soon as I saw that button I knew I'd have trouble using it.. what will "sync" do? Push my branches? Pull tracking branches? Will merge commits get implicitly created? Or will it just fetch? From what servers? I didn't want to risk having my local master get pushed into production just because GH wants to make things easy for me, so I just quit it and went back to the CLI.

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mchahn  7 years ago

GitHub's Atom editor recently added git operations. I use Atom but haven't had the time to try the git wrapping. Has anyone else used it?

emodendroket  7 years ago

It just pushes the current branch afaik.

  • dotancohen  7 years ago

    So they should just call it 'push'. The word 'sync' is not in the Git terminology.

    • aalleavitch  7 years ago

      In its defense, git terminology is stupid. It took me way too long to reason out what the fuck a pull request meant. To your starting developer it seems to indicate the opposite of what it does.

    • emodendroket  7 years ago

      The GitHub desktop client is very limited and seems mostly geared toward a lone developer or small team who has never used git before. In this context I think it's a reasonable decision to use a more common verb.

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