Can you suggest an interesting project on git for an absolute beginner ?

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc⁩ to ⁨ask@piefed.social⁩

I am trying out git on my local system, and I am a complete beginner, that is I have 0 knowledge of git. For a starting I wish to undertake some kind of project to get the hang of how it works. I wish to do it locally, but if you are interested, I am ready to work as a team on GitHub. Do you have any idea ? It ought to be graphical and fun !

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NormDeplume@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
While it’s not a project, this is number one tool I recommend someone looking to learn git: https://learngitbranching.js.org/. It’ll teach you about how git actually works

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hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
As a beginner, I’d start with small things. And not in a real code repository. Copy a few text files into a directory, and then commit them into version control. Modify them. See how the workflow is. Check if you can go back 2 versions and find out what changed. Do a branch and edit stuff there, then get it into the main branch. See if you can cause a merge conflict and handle it.

If you can do all of that on random placeholder textfiles, you can move on. But we’d need to know which programming languages and software you like to give recommendations.

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- LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I created a repository from my terminal as a testing. Now I wish to see how git works. What you say, l need to understand in terms of precise git commands, because all this can be done from the terminal. I prefer working on image files. Or you think text files would be better ? I’ve no idea of programming languages, but maybe html ?? And what do you mean by software ???
  
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  - hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I mean you probably want to use Git to solve some kind of problem in your life. The usual use-case is to manage software projects. It’s also good at managing text files of any kind. Whatever you like. A HTML file is text, too. It’s a bit less good with images and other binary formats. But you can use it to manage them as well.
    
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  - vrek@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    One of the big advantages of git is you can see the difference between versions of text. Since you don’t programming languages imagine a group report project in school. Sally may make up the general structure and main points. Tom writes a expanded section of 2 of the points. Matt writes another 2. Sue writes the introduction and conclusion. Jason edits it. Git lets you walk back through all that and shows you who did what and lets you keep/discard the changes. It can show you who changed what and when.
    
    With pictures and images it can store the different versions but can’t distinguish what exactly changed. Like it can store a picture with a blue background and then someone changes it to an orange background but it can’t know exactly what changed only that it’s different,if they changed the background of a city skyline they could of also inserted a tiny monkey into one of the windows. You would have to scan everything versed it highlighting only the differences.
    
    Btw .. here is a book with A LOT more details https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
    
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