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[–] [email protected] 179 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Interviewer: It's git push origin main now. Get out of here!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just set your default behavior.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I have only ever used simply "git push". I feel like this is a "how to say that you barely know how to use git without saying that you barely know how to use git" moment:-D.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Normal distribution curve meme makes sense here - experts and noobs can both git push safely (but for different reasons)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I can follow along re-typing the same commands told to me by a more senior dev just like any average monkey!

This reminds me of something I made a long time ago: img

Since I am calling myself dumb, I estimate my progress to be somewhere perhaps at the 20th percentile marker? :-D One of these days I'll RTFM and rocket all the way up to be dumb enough to properly qualify for "below average"! :-P

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You can default git to using your current branch and a specific upstream so you don't have to put anything after git push

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Has git never told you that you should use git push -u origin <branch> when you push a new branch for the first time?

[–] PoolloverNathan 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The first time you manually push like that, you can add the -u flag (git push -u origin master) to push and set the branch's default upstream. Afterwards, a plain git push while that branch is checked out will push the branch to that default upstream. This is per-branch, so you can have a main branch that pulls from one repository and a patch branch that pulls and pushes to a different repository.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My strategy is to just type git push and get some kind of error message about upstream not being set or something. That's a signal for me to take a second to think about what I'm actually doing and type the correct command.

[–] embed_me 1 points 10 months ago

That's a signal for me to

... google the error and randomly try stack overflow answers without really understanding them.

( I have changed)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Fuck those that use main. If you're working on a library fork that has main and a project that has master you're bound to invert the two.

"What do you mean I can't checkout main? Oh right, here it's master..."

For once that we had a standard, it had to be ruined.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Fuck those that use master. If you're working on a library fork that has main and a project that has master you're bound to invert the two.

"What do you mean I can't checkout main? Oh right, here it's master..."

For once that we had a standard, it had to be ruined.

The standard is now main.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The standard is now main.

Git itself does not use that standard yet, so at least now there are two competing standards.

I get that there are cultural reasons why the word master was loaded language, but still, it's not like institutional racism will go away. Meanwhile, the rest of the world which doesn't struggle with the remnants of slavery has to put up with US weirdness.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Git itself does not use that standard yet, so at least now there are two competing standards.

Just ran git init in a brand new empty directory, and while it did create a master branch by default, it also printed out a very descriptive message explaining how you can change that branch name, how you can configure git to use something else by default, and other standards that are commonly used.

Also, there's nothing saying your local branch name has to match the upstream. That's the beauty of git - you have the freedom to set it up pretty much however you want locally.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's what I'm saying, there is no one standard now. The stupid thing is all the problems that causes is mostly because there used to be one, and stuff written assuming master branches are eternal.

I've had a company that had some automation built on git but below GitLab that would not let you delete master branches. When main became a thing, they just started hard protecting those as well by name. It's because of regulatory, and they are very stingy about it.

So when I created a few dozen empty deployment repos with main as the default, and then had to change it over to master so that it lined up nicer with the rest of the stuff, I've had a few dozen orphaned undeletable empty main branches laying around. A bit frustrating.

That said, the whole thing is just that. A bit frustrating. If it makes some people feel better about themselves, so be it. I am blessed in life enough to take "a bit frustrating".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's fair, I can see how that would be annoying for sure. I think that frustration stems more from company policy though, not necessarily the standard changing. And you know what they say, there's nothing certain in this world except for death, taxes, and standards changing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It is trash code for sure, but most of the world's code is trash, so we do have to accommodate trash code when we design stuff. That said, they do need to do this to comply with laws and make sure code doesn't get lost (it's finance), and this was the easy way to do it. Doing it better would have taken time and attention away from other stuff.

And standards do change, but they usually change to accommodate new features, or a new software product displaces an old one. I don't really know any tech standard that changed because of cultural reasons. Point is, change is a cost. It may be worth to pay the cost, but here the benefits were US cultural sentiments that most of the world doesn't care about.

And the stupid thing is that even when standards change, you are not usually labelled as culturally out of touch if you don't follow it. Most big orgs don't follow changes that they don't need to. Nobody calls you a bigot for running COBOL mainframes in 2023, but they might if you predominantly have master branches.

I guess my perspective is that some people I know were mildly annoyed before lunch about it one day two years ago, since nobody cares about US identity politics, with my personal opinion being if the US didn't fill up its for-profit prisons with black people who it then those prisons profit off of (just as an example), the word master would not bite as hard, and the whole thing would be moot.

[–] BatmanAoD 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

git checkout ma<tab>

If you don't have autocomplete set up for your shell, get it working. If someone has a different branch named ma..., ask if you can delete it, and get your team to adopt a decent branch naming convention.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
git checkout ma<tab>

mai_new_chenges 
march_deploy_second_final_final_fixed      
main_fixes       
mast_not_farget_to_delete_it
[–] BatmanAoD 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

...yeah, I already said that if there is another branch starting with those letters it should be deleted. You need a naming convention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I really wish to work in a team where people have naming conventions for branches that are concerned about stuff like that. Must've been a nice place to work at.

[–] BatmanAoD 1 points 9 months ago

Whoever named the "final final fixed" one seems to have missed the point of version control. πŸ˜‘

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think the reasons was ridiculous. The fact that people didn't like the word master anymore. But I'm used to it now, so fine, let's use main. It makes sensitive people feel better.