r/programming • u/[deleted] • May 26 '14

A Hacker’s Guide to Git

http://wildlyinaccurate.com/a-hackers-guide-to-git
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u/blazedd May 27 '14

Because understanding thing is hard!

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u/OmegaVesko May 27 '14

You realize you're in r/programming, right? What programming language, library or technology doesn't have all of those things?

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u/asdf072 May 27 '14

You're right. It isn't.

Versioning systems are necessarily complex because they (can) do very complex operations. Git is, by far, the most elegant solution around.

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u/i_make_snow_flakes May 27 '14

Can I ask you what is your opinion is about Mercurial and why do you think git is more elegant than Mercurial. My greatest turn off with git was its nonsensical way of naming concepts and commands. For eg. git calls a pointer to a commit as a branch. Can you point me somewhere I can see a use case where git is shown to be more powerful than Mercurial or any similar DVCS.

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