January 16, 2020 at 12:00 am
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why I’m Learning Git via the Command Line Interface
January 16, 2020 at 12:46 pm
I too tried a GUI-based git solution ... confusion was abundant after a few edits, commits, attempted merge, push, pull. Two things helped me the most:
2. Pro Git [ https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 ]
Command line is the way to go.
Adrian
buie.us
January 16, 2020 at 2:22 pm
I agree with using command line and gitk for reviewing logs. That way you don't have to spend time learning a different GUI for each tool Visual Studio Code has nice diff tool also.
January 16, 2020 at 2:59 pm
I agree! (Except I use SourceGear DiffMerge as my difftool.)
January 18, 2020 at 12:07 pm
This is interesting as I found exactly the same thing. I kept going back to trying GIT again, each time with a different graphical tool and I always ended up confused as the tools seemed so complicated and decided to put it off again as they made GIT seem such a complex skill to master. Then one day I decided to use the command line and was amazed how simple it actually was.
I really don't understand why the graphical tools all seem to be so confusing and complicated as all they should need would be a text box to paste the repro, buttons for clone, pull and push and a drop-down to switch the branch then a comments box could popup on push for you to add a comment. Everything else should be hidden in a different screen.
I have now set up two batch files for download (pull) and upload (push) that the team can use on their machines. Much simpler than any GUI solution available (and free!).
January 20, 2020 at 4:12 pm
We use GIT via azure Devops (man it is so cool compared to TFS, especially having your transient repository locally and not breaking the automated staging builds every 5 minutes) we also use Redgate source control to push to GIT, but I got a bit frustrated that there wasn't a merge management tool as part of the Redgate tools and I was advised to look at 3rd party tool.... it actually just hooked in nicely with Redgate...
but i've had some issues recently (i suspect service pack bugs) that meant i couldn't get source control to register a perfectly valid clone of a repository. - funny how easy the GIT push,pull, commit command line is. It fixed everything until mysteriously after i had a few days off and found that my laptop had rebooted (back to the bitlocker screen) - funny how my laptop was a tiny bit different and i had to re-set my screen configuration ..... damn scheduled windows updates.
now everything works , but command line is cool to fall back on
MVDBA
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