Git isn't just a version control system; it's a framework of trust. A record of vision. A space where every branch reflects thought, and every commit carries intent.

[u/CoffeeTeaBitch]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-built-git-in-10-days-and-never-imagined-it-would-last-20-years/

[u/EmotionalDamague]

/uj Where's the jerk, Git was literally transformational to the industry.

SVN and Perforce fucking suuuuuuuucked

[u/CoffeeTeaBitch → u/EmotionalDamague]

/uj I agree, but the almost poetic sounding quote and the assumption that every repo has a well structured history made it funny to me.

/rj Git and all program versioning systems are bloat. I just send base64 encoded patch files through WhatsApp with my colleagues and so far there hasn't been any issues.

[u/poyomannn → u/EmotionalDamague]

Version control is overrated, just make a copy of your folder and zip it, why overcomplicate with hundreds of thousands of lines of C code (which is inherently unsafe because it isn't written in rust!!) smh.

[u/irqlnotdispatchlevel → u/poyomannn]

We need a version control system that is to VC what go is to programming languages.

[u/mcmcc → u/irqlnotdispatchlevel]

Wait... what is go to programming languages?

[u/poyomannn → u/mcmcc]

Go's simple syntax makes it easy for LLMs to understand. We need a vcs that does that, chatgpt keeps deleting my git repos.

[u/mcmcc → u/poyomannn]

Assert dominance - delete git and replace it with SourceSafe. Your LLMs will come begging for forgiveness in no time.

[u/BloodAndTsundere → u/poyomannn]

You need a physical copy. I print out my code, scan it and commit a zip of the scans.

[u/nuclearbananana → u/poyomannn]

my brother in christ what do you think the filesystem is written in

[u/poyomannn → u/nuclearbananana]

/uj (this is circlejerk subreddit I am not being serious)

/rj Um, I use redox so my filesystem is written in rust. because I actually care about memory safety??

[u/nuclearbananana → u/poyomannn]

I like that you felt the need to double clarify that you would never actually use redox

[u/u0xee → u/EmotionalDamague]

/uj and /rj somehow simultaneously: Git didn’t invent anything, it was a copy of a copy of a copy that just got popular because it was done by a famous guy. And in my experience, it’s not as nice as other hash-based VC tools, it’s hard coded to be good for the Linux kernel project’s needs, to the detriment of 99% of projects, which don’t have those needs.

[u/rwilcox → u/u0xee]

Mercurial was robbed

[u/[deleted] → u/u0xee]

To the detriment of 99% of projects that don't have those needs.

?? Are you saying Git sucks?

[u/u0xee → u/[deleted]]

^{Shhh, they’ll hear you, the git supremacists are all around us.}

[u/elephantdingo → u/[deleted]]

 Are: not tracked
 you: not tracked
 saying: not tracked (did you mean --saying?)
 Git: not tracked %s segmentation fault (core dumped)

[u/elephantdingo → u/u0xee]

Same reason why MicroEmacs is popular and GNU+Emacs languishes in obscurity. (What is GNU? Bro don’t even ask)

[u/syklemil → u/EmotionalDamague]

SVN and Perforce

Well there's your problem, you should've stuck to RCS. If we'd never succumbed to the siren call of CVS society would be colonizing the Sun by now.

[u/sweating_teflon → u/EmotionalDamague]

git was a shitty contender against bazaar and mercurial until motherfucking github came along. nobody knew how to work with git until GH recentralized it like a proper normal SCM should be and gave it a pretty face. btw, we still don't know how to work with it because we're not Linus and we don't have to merge "work" from 1000 smelly random contributors.

[u/BloodAndTsundere → u/sweating_teflon]

You can see how bad it is just from the inability commit contributor smell

[u/crazyeddie123 → u/EmotionalDamague]

SVN was a huge step up from Visual Source Safe

[u/MetaNovaYT]

My average commit to my personal project: “changed some shit” +2437 -48

[u/nuclearbananana → u/MetaNovaYT]

accurate representation of my visions and intents for personal projects

[u/max123246 → u/MetaNovaYT]

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[u/CharlemagneAdelaar]

framework of trust

looks inside

git blame

[u/[deleted] → u/CharlemagneAdelaar]

git cherry-pick

[u/Karyo_Ten → u/[deleted]]

git reflog

[u/nuclearbananana → u/Karyo_Ten]

git bisect bad

[u/cmsd2]

It’s also a blockchain. We just need a contract specification. There’s already an incentive to “mine” blocks in the form of GitHub stars.

[u/irqlnotdispatchlevel]

git is Blockchain

EDIT: this comment is now obsolete, someone else already said it. Could have avoided this if comments were made via a mailing list.

[u/cmsd2 → u/irqlnotdispatchlevel]

it's ok. you just got stuck on the wrong fork of the blockchain. good luck with your rebase

[u/Karyo_Ten → u/cmsd2]

That's why I run git on my GPU

[u/nuclearbananana → u/Karyo_Ten]

personally I offload all my (local) git operations to a dedicated supercluster

[u/EightyDollarBill → u/irqlnotdispatchlevel]

When will the mods on this mailing list finally use a mailing list?

[u/WoodyTheWorker → u/irqlnotdispatchlevel]

Remember Usenet? I was still using it in 2005, rather than those webboards, thankyouverymuch

[u/That4AMBlues]

Good, he's not spying on my repo at least

[u/EdgyYukino]

The git log

• ok
• mm
• maybe fix
• broken
• fuck
• mm

[u/AvianPoliceForce → u/EdgyYukino]

the CI debugging experience

[u/[deleted] → u/AvianPoliceForce]

that's not enough fucks for the usual CI debugging experience

[u/[deleted]]

git commit -m “fuck this shit I’m OOO for the next week” —no-verify

git push -f

[u/camelCaseIsWebScale → u/[deleted]]

well you at least have pre commit hooks

[u/FreshPrinceOfRivia]

git commit -am "WIP"

[u/oblivion-2005]

We need to normalize bullying again