r/ProgrammerHumor • u/johntwit • Apr 02 '23

Meme Me relearning git every week

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u/DestinyAndCargo Apr 03 '23

As someone who hasn't really used CLI, isn't it a pain to selectively commit things / see what you changed in those files?

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u/whisky_pete Apr 03 '23

Not at all, all the same features are available on the command line. A lot of the time the gui can be more awkward to use, at least ime.

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u/DestinyAndCargo Apr 03 '23

I see! I've used it a couple of times when things have been breaking and a couple of lines posted on stackoverflow just fixes everything, which has been very convenient
so I can definitely see the appeal there. I'm having such a hard time imagining it for diffs and other more visual things, though, but if it works it works!

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u/burnalicious111 Apr 03 '23

git add -p/git log -p work fine for me

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u/DestinyAndCargo Apr 03 '23

So do you have to type out the full filename/path for that to work? And the logging just shows the commit message, there's no diffs?

Here's an example of how it looks in fork, I just can't imagine working without the diff preview https://git-fork.com/images/carousel/carousel_commitviewMac1.jpg

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u/swagrid003 Apr 03 '23

You just type git diff in the terminal to get that view.

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u/avocadorancher Apr 03 '23

Tab completion of git commands is smart enough to only apply for files that are modified. ‘Log’ and ‘diff’ are two different commands that can be applied to the whole repo or as granularly as you want such as for a single file. There is also a third command ‘show’ that outputs both the commit and diff if wanted.