Git basics – the only introduction you'll ever need

https://areknawo.com/git-basics-the-only-introduction-you-will-ever-need/

by areknawo • 7 years ago

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phoe-krk• 7 years ago

I consider https://learngitbranching.js.org/ to be nicer.

girlsrule1234• 7 years ago

Great link/content. Doesn’t work on mobile, unfortunately.

AceJohnny2• 7 years ago

LearnGitBranching is excellent to help one visualize what's going on with rebases, resets, and merges. I highly recommend it as well.

Not sure it's aiming at quite the same target user as the OP article though, which is targeting the true beginner. LearnGitBranching is maybe slightly more advanced?

t0mbstone• 7 years ago

If you are new to git, the very first thing you should do is get a GUI. There are plenty of good free ones. Github has one, or Sourcetree is another popular choice.

You should also learn the command line, too, but it's really easy to shoot yourself in the foot if you don't know what you are doing, and a GUI makes it easier for beginners to get used to the whole paradigm first.

I have been using git for years now, and I use the CLI for lots of little one-off things, but I use the GUI for making individual commits and merges.

type0• 7 years ago

However there are plenty of bad GUIs that make it easy to shoot yourself in the foot!

Sourcetree maybe isn't the worst but it's also one of the slowest.

audiometry• 7 years ago

This article would benefit from harsh editing to cut down all the unnecessary prose. Just so much unnecessary talking. I felt like I galloped over multiple fluff paragraphs before I got to “git init” before it resumed again.

amanzi• 7 years ago

Nice article, here's some feedback for you. The explanation for Branches could do with some re-wording. This sentence in particular is hard to digest: "Examples of these include -c, -m, -d, respectively standing for copy, move and delete with first two operating on first passed branch as the original one or (if only one has been passed) the one currently worked on."

I think the Checkouts example should be changed to:

  git checkout my-branch

This will continues from the previous example to show that you're checking out the branch you just created.

In the Push & Pull section, this doesn't make sense to me: "...in the form of git pull command, which automatically fetches and merges your current branch with the main remote one." Perhaps better worded as: "...in the form of git pull command, which automatically fetches the remote branch and merges with your current local branch.

newzucanuze• 7 years ago

I didn't investigate why, but this page takes up an increasingly high amount of system resources (RAM in particular) in FireFox. I couldn't even finish the article.

Git basics – the only introduction you'll ever need

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