Imagine a young explorer who’s just heard that word, “git”. But it actually means an entire world. How is this young explorer supposed to dive into this mysterious world with just a machine in hand ?

He’s got vs code though !! And he’s also got fish and zsh on WSL !

  • forestbeasts@pawb.social
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    4 days ago

    That picture you included is kinda weird and misleading IMO.

    First thing: Ignore the “central repository”. There is none. git works entirely locally (this confuses the hell out of people who grew up with CVS/SVN, for some reason). You CAN push and pull to other people’s computers, if you want, or your own other computer; all Github or whatever is is a “someone else’s computer” in the cloud that you can push to. But you also don’t need a remote repository at all. Most of ours don’t have one.

    Seconding https://learngitbranching.js.org/. It’s quite nice.

    Some stuff you should know:

    • A commit is a snapshot of everything in the project (that was added to git at the time).
    • A branch is basically just a movable tag pointing to the latest commit, with which you can get to previous commits by walking the chain backwards; when you make a new commit, you move the branch to point to it.
    • You can make alternate timelines by going back to a previous commit (without moving your branch pointer), making a new branch pointer (and switching to it), and editing/committing/etc. That’s why they’re called branches.
    • There’s an undo history for where your branch has been, git reflog. Can save your butt if a rebase or whatever goes sideways and you get screwed up.
    • All your history is in the .git folder in your project folder. Everything. If you back that up you’ve got the whole history of the project.

    – Frost

    • LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.ccOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I’m unable to play that game. I need more interactive guidance than what the website provides.

      Do the developers have any account on GitHub where I can pull up an issue ?

    • LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.ccOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Hello Frost, l need to play with git in order to understand how it works. The picture that l have put up is random. Posting a picture creates a link on piefed, which enables crossposting, hence putting up an image.

      Nice to see your reply after quite sometime.

      Right now l wish to toy with vs code. I’ve downloaded one yesterday. I’m not familiar with this this tool yet. It can be used used independently on windows 10, but I wish to use it on WSL.

      Can you suggest me some introductory course/tutorial ?

      • forestbeasts@pawb.social
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        4 days ago

        uuuhh…? I got no idea how to use VS Code, I don’t use VS Code. I’m more a Kate wolf myself. (And vim, but vim is weird and clunky at first and would probably just be frustrating.)

        *shoots piefed a very confused look*

        Unless you meant a tutorial on git, in which case, the learngitbranching.js.org one is great.