Title text: If that doesn’t fix it, git.txt contains the phone number of a friend of mine who understands git. Just wait through a few minutes of ‘It’s really pretty simple, just think of branches as…’ and eventually you’ll learn the commands that will fix everything.

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[Cueball points to a computer on a desk while Ponytail and Hairy are standing further away behind an office chair.]

Cueball: This is git. It tracks collaborative work on projects through a beautiful distributed graph theory tree model.
Ponytail: Cool. How do we use it?
Cueball: No idea. Just memorize these shell commands and type them to sync up. If you get errors, save your work elsewhere, delete the project, and download a fresh copy.

    • @Magnetar@feddit.deEnglish
      11•11 months ago

      If my colleagues mess something up in their fancy GUIs, they come to me to fix it in the terminal.

      • @Gxost@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4•11 months ago

        My experience is the opposite. A colleague who uses SourceTree and git console (for use cases not covered by SourceTree) asked me a few times to fix his branches when something went wrong (after using git console). I easily fixed it using SmartGit (paid software).

    • @floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      9•11 months ago

      Is there a really good free Git GUI for Linux? I have tried a bunch of them but all the good ones seem to be closed source and paid.

      • @aliceblossom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9•11 months ago

        I like SourceTree and it’s free. I don’t use it all the time, but if I’ve made a bunch of changes debugging something and I want to easily discard all of the debugging-only changes, the UI makes it really easy to commit or discard individual lines from the changeset.

        Additionally, I set up an alias to open it from the command line (stree) and have it show whatever git directory I opened it from.

        • @floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
          2•11 months ago

          Will it run on Linux? I use Sourcetree on Windows but didn’t think it was available for Linux.

      • @Muehe@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5•11 months ago

        Guess it’s a bit subjective what would be considered good, but personally I like gitk. It’s good enough for me at least.