Post #2617031
2025-09-26 11:49 UTC
Replies (5)
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@agowa338@chaos.social 2025-09-26 11:51
@mia@tearoom.tearmoon.com never used either of these much. As someone that started with git both mercurial and subversion always are quite annoying and difficult to work with. The first thing I usually do after having managed to get them locally is "git init ." to track my own changes in it properly...
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@dragonfi@social.jsteuernagel.de 2025-12-04 22:17
@mia@tearoom.tearmoon.com @agowa338@chaos.social Yeah... the command line is a bit inconsistent. And it could be better. But as a linguistics major, you must know that language itself is super inconsistent, as it was created gradually, by multiple people, and now they call you out if you deviate from the standard.
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@dragonfi@social.jsteuernagel.de 2025-12-04 22:26
@mia@tearoom.tearmoon.com @agowa338@chaos.social Also, git is simple in the same way quantum mechanics is simple. It is the simplest solution to a complex problem. The complex problem being: a distributed version control system that you can adapt to a lot of different situations. I can use git without ever configuring a server, I can make a repo, I can clone it to a USB or CD. I can give it to a friend. In fact, I included the whole source repo of my thesis on a CD when I handed in my thesis.
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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org 2025-12-04 22:32
@mia@tearoom.tearmoon.com @agowa338@chaos.social svn… ugh. I use cvs and git daily, though with git adopting rust will move more usages of git to cvs. (I wrote an svn2cvs.sh if you’re interested.)
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@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk 2025-12-05 03:43
@mia@tearoom.tearmoon.com @agowa338@chaos.social this. also i still say that git branches aren't really branches.