Comment on Fossil: A Git alternative with batteries included

• robinm@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you try to learn git one command at a time on the fly, git is HARD. If you take the time to understand its internal data structure it’s much, much easier to learn. Unfortunalely most people try to do the former because it works well (or better) for most tasks.

  I can’t recommand enough the git parable.

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  • jadero@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks. I guess it’s the perpetual problem of learning something new. Instead of starting at the beginning, we trick ourselves into thinking that we can skip the fundamentals. Then we have difficulty and think that the problem is one of complexity or just over our heads instead of our approach.

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    • bitcrafter@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In fairness, sometimes it is useful to get hands on experience with a system before you dig into its fundamentals so that you have a reference point that helps you absorb the information.

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  • fhoekstra@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    learngitbranching.js.org Is a very accessible browser game that I found useful on my Git journey to start to grasp the underlying structures and operations such as rebase.

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