Fred Stluka on 21 Dec 2018 14:13:33 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Git: net time gain or loss? 

Will,

"Git Game" -- Cool!  I like it!  I've added it to the Git row of my
links page:
- http://bristle.com/~fred/#git

--Fred
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On 12/21/18 2:19 AM, Will wrote:

JP,
I am sorry if scared you so bad that every sequence of numbers on this mailing list makes you think of Europe's finest song ever. Even when counting up instead of counting down. But... I have one little excercise for you to complete some evening that I am QUITE curious how it may or may not impact your perspective and whether or not you like puzzles. 
May I introduce... The git game. This game works best on Linux (not 
even a Mac), will frustrate you and teach you the ways of git... 
Without reading some tutorial ending with a node.js developer that 
looks on stack overflow to close vim. 
https://github.com/git-game/git-game

I've found that one link to be my single greatest training tool that 
doesn't require reading documentation that does not seem to make sense 
until the problem presents itself. I have used this git game to train 
many a Windows developer that swore by source safe to at least rely on 
the this tool to manage code until we came back home... And not stuck 
in a place like Kansas. I find command line tools (especially git) to 
be insanely powerful and beautiful... With quite possibly the most 
awful of experiences for the learning curve sometimes found even years 
later.

One large general git gripe I pose for this mailing list that 
surprisingly was done well with Visual Source Safe that I cannot 
replicate with svn, mercurial, or our beloved git. Working at a 
particular position, we had all of our projects for every customer and 
every release of our base application all in a single repository (feel 
free to cringe here with VSS that was not backed up for years). At the 
start of every project, we would pin the base application version 
while checking in new versions of our customers augmented custom code. 
I have not been able in any repository to pin parts of one branch to a 
single commit while allowing other parts to continue to function as a 
repo would normally all in the same branch. Effectively it was as if a 
single folder could be set manually to specific tags as everything 
else would move along with the head revision all in the same branch. 
While a neat feature, I can only assume I could not replicate the 
behavior with other tools as maybe the behavior that is so bad of an 
anti-pattern/worst practice that it could be considered just stupid 
and banned from ever being done in something like Git.

I would really be interested in how and curious by how messy it would 
be to have a single branch in git reference different commits from 
head in the same branch. I hate knowing that something could be done 
in VSS in the GUI without having a clue on how to do the same in Git. 
Even if that functionality maybe flat out banned by design for safety 
and integrity purposes.

-Will C




On Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 21:46 Charlie Li <ml+PLUG@vishwin.info 
<mailto:ml%2BPLUG@vishwin.info> wrote:

    On 20/12/2018 21:23, Rich Freeman wrote:
    > I dunno.  Sometimes I think the best way to punish the ignorant
    is to
    > encourage them to continue in their ignorance.  If done well you can
    > even get them to cut off their own nose out of spite!  :)
    >
    Unless you're trying to get people to use Linux. We all know what
    happens when we talk about Linux too much.


    -- 
    Charlie "flying car connoisseur" Li

    (This email address is for mailing list use only; replace local-part
    with vishwin for off-list communication)

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