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GitHub Desktop or Git CLI? (programming.dev)
submitted 11 months ago by hypnotic_nerd@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I don't understand git anyway

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 69 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, you learn four commands and hope for the best.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

fetch, reset --hard, checkout -b and cherry-pick?

:-D

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nah, rebase -i, squash, fsck and reflog

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Must be an interesting work if you never add, commit or push.

Edit: How the hell did you get the repo without clone?

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pshaw, real programmers write out the contents of .git by hand.

(Also, it was a joke, the last two commands I listed are ones you'll ideally never need in your life)

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

reflog saved my life once after a stupid misshap.

All rebase are belong to us (onto, rebase, and ofc interactive) but what's fsck (I don't squash personally)?

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[–] muix@infosec.pub 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

More like clone, pull, commit, and push --force

>:-D

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[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 54 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago

  • git pull

  • git add *

  • git commit -m "Some stuff"

  • git push

And occasionally when you mess up

  • git reflog

  • git reset HEAD@{n} (where n is where you wanna roll back to)

And occasionally if you mess up so hard you give up

  • git reset --hard origin/main

And there you go. You are now a master at using git. Try not to mess up.

[–] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 35 points 11 months ago (12 children)

I really never understood why one would need a GUI for git except for visualizing branches.

I feel like I'm crazy seeing so many people using clicky buttons for tracking files. I need like 4 commands for 95% of what I do and the rest you look up.

You're already programming! Just learn the tool!

And now there's a github CLI tool? I hate to beat a dead horse but Microsoft pushing their extended version of an open source tool/protocol is literally the second step of their mantra.

[–] idiocracy@lemmy.zip 13 points 11 months ago

knowing how to program doesn't mean u need to do things the hard way.

heck the whole point of programming is to make things easier and faster.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

FWIW not everyone using source control is a programmer. I've seen artists in game dev using GUI tools to pull new changes and push their assets.

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[–] derpgon@programming.dev 33 points 11 months ago (8 children)

JetBrains IDEs, I don't remember the last time I used the CLI.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

you have forgotten the face of your father

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 10 points 11 months ago

Linus Torvalds?

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[–] criticalimpact@lemm.ee 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

CLI
Though I will admit it took me a while to get there
git add -i is where the true magic begins

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[–] art@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Learning git will give you the tools to work on projects on any git platform. It doesn't matter if I'm in Forgejo, Gitlab, or Github.

[–] bellsDoSing@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

And it will find you the most answers online in case you have a git related question.

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 24 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Magit

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[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

GitHub desktop Stan here. Been a software engineer for over a decade and still love my UI tools. GitHub desktop is good enough 99% of the time.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 11 months ago (15 children)

Fork

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Any windows screenshots?

(Fork is also an awful name in terms of searching for it btw)

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 11 months ago

(there's also a couple more here: https://git-fork.com/)

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[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'd love to like the desktop app, but I just don't understand what it's doing under the hood when I click a button. When I click an icon, is it syncing my changes up as it pulls down, it just pulling down? I guess point and click is more scary to me when prod is on the line.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why are you syncing directly to prod

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Vscode plugins?

[–] akkajdh999@programming.dev 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

lazygit:

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[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 13 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Fork.

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[–] amotio@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sublime-Merge

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[–] beefsquatch@programming.dev 11 points 11 months ago

Sublime Merge, for most items in the UI it tells you the git command it will use

[–] infinitepcg@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

GitKraken!

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

CLI + IDE for git

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[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

using LazyGit in tmux has changed my workflow.

instead of: git add . git commit -m 'foo' fg

i just: g ac foo q

and it displays everything neatly

Edit: apparently greater/less than symbols dont render properly on lemmy. so imagine a few (CR)'s and (C-b)'s sprinkled in

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[–] Metype@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I'd use Desktop if it worked, unfortunately recently it decided that I don't have read/write access to a repo I'm working on. Works fine in git CLI so idk what the problem there is.

[–] Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Vim Fugitive

[–] TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.com 7 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Laughs in Sourcetree

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[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (5 children)

SVN?

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[–] CmdrKeen@lemmy.today 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

GitLens?

GitHub Desktop is literally "Baby's first git GUI".

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Why are they even on the same bus?

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