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It’s funny cause I don’t use GitHub much and don’t know git... yet. So basically I don’t understand all those git jokes. I only used GitHub a few times, and it was without the desktop app (which I find fucking stupid since you need to “clone” everything....

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    6y
    It's just the nomenclature. It's like any other source control system, where you have a local copy of what's on the server. That local copy, in the git universe, is a clone.
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    6y
    There is a git desktop (client) app that make things easier to deal with fork,push,pull etc versus command line.
  • 0
    6y
    @Biggy but that is opinionated, worked two months with UI clients for git, someone told me to use CLI and that is when things started to make sense to me.

    And I still can not use UI for git, they are to complicated for me.
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    6y
    'html, web, c++, nodejs, javascript, python..'
    And we find ourselves in the presence of the creature commonly known as the 'Hashtag whore'.
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    6y
    comprehensive Git guide: https://xkcd.com/1597/
  • 0
    6y
    There was an interactive git tutorial I used before when learning it. Not sure if it still exists, but it helps a lot!

    It has terminal like on the page and a cat is guiding you on what to type and explains it
  • 0
    6y
    @Cybork I’m new to this, lmao but sure
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    6y
    @Fast-Nop Got a flashback from a colleague of mine, who used 3 computers, and merging back to master meant us seeing 3 resolved conflicts (git pull vs git pull --rebase). Holy shit how ugly our history became!
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