Git is one of those things that take a bunch of learning to understand but is makes perfect sense once you do. I read like half of the pro git book and after that I was like it's so simple! If course it still requires you to read half a book...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes! And the book is free. You can download it in PDF if you want.

For some reason I've always been able to visualize version control systems and workflows pretty well and understand how they work. I used to host a CVS server when I was in college back in 2001 so my teammates and I we could collaborate on our lab projects. Then moved on to Subversion, which I used for a very long time. Then I worked at a small company who used Canonical's Bazaar and finally joined a big corp who used Git.

Throughout the years I simply developed some good practices that I applied to Git and that seemed to be enough. But, I'd occasionally get into this detached head state that I didn't really understand. And this happened often with my teammates at that job. They'd end up with bizarre scenarios. So I started reading the book and experimenting and was soon pretty solid in Git and ended up being the SME on that topic for our team. Everyone would come to me when they got stuck.

I'm still learning new shit about Git even 8 years later lol. But, the step from being a newbie to a normal user is really big.

[–] mrkite 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah back before github existed, we used sourceforge to host opensource, and you had to use CVS. Then later Subversion.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago