Comment on GitHub Desktop or Git CLI?

derpgon@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  you have forgotten the face of your father

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  • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Linus Torvalds?

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• expr@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good luck doing anything remotely complicated/useful in git with an IDE. You get a small fraction of what git can do with a tool that allows absolutely 0 scripting and automation.

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  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IDE git is less powerful than CLI git. However I’m pretty confident that most people use more features of git by using a GUI.

    CLI feature discoverability is pretty awful, you have to go out of your way and type git help to learn new commands.

    With a GUI though, all the buttons are there, you just have to click a new button that you’ve been seeing for a while and the GUI will guide you how to use it.

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  • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It sounds like you don’t speak from experience. I have all the automation I need. It supports git hooks on top of IDE-only features like code checking.

    If I have to fire up my CLI for some mass history rewriting (like changing an author for every commit), or when the repo breaks - so be it. But by not using the CLI I save my fingers and sanity, because committing a bunch of files is several click away with little to no room for error.

    I can rebase, patch, drop, rename, merge, revert, cherry pick, and solve conflicts with a click of a button rather than remembering all the commands and whatnot.

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use the cli, but my main goal is to never have to do anything remotely complicated with git. Does it happen sometimes? Of course.

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  • muddi@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are automations. You can even add git hooks iirc. Mostly I find the lint and other code quality integrations nice to have in the IDE, since the inline results allow me to navigate directly to the code

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• eluvatar@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the way

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• CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was looking for this comment. PHP storm and git are like best friends. I very very rarely need to resort to the CLI and generally that’s for hard resetting after I screw something up

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