Comment by KingMob
1 year ago
I suspect the reason is the same as the use of local git GUIs and TUIs; git has a terrible CLI, so everyone uses its plumbing, but not its porcelain.
1 year ago
I suspect the reason is the same as the use of local git GUIs and TUIs; git has a terrible CLI, so everyone uses its plumbing, but not its porcelain.
Yeah, there's a reason why stuff like the git manpage generator (https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/) is funny, and it's because git's CLI doesn't have a learning curve. It has a learning brick wall that you smash your face into.
> the git manpage generator is funny
It would be funny if I didn't mistake it for an actual git manpage.
Hehe. Yeah, I can't think of another tool that's simultaneously popular enough, and painful enough, to warrant a site like https://ohshitgit.com
Perhaps there's a similar site for 'ffmpeg'.
The link you posted looks pretty helpful. I guess my needs for "interesting" git operations are low because I've never felt the need to move beyond the CLI. (Mostly, that is. I do click the colored bars in VS Code to stage commits and then commit from the command line.)
Occasionally I need to search for help when I screw something up. More often the solution is in the git warning message ("You need to 'git pull' before you can push" - paraphrasing.)