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Linus Torvalds - that commit is not mine (lore.kernel.org)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Cook's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by screwing up git commands."

[–] koper 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The person who created git clearly cannot be trusted to write good kernel code. I'm CC'ing Konstantin to disable his account, whoever he is.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

git-filter-repo seems to be separate from git

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

screwing up git commands

You mean "using git." It's the only piece of software that I hate with Oracle. Jujutsu is a breath of fresh air and I can ignore that git ever existed.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

git is genuinely one of the best tools ever created. It is an extremely simple idea with crazy effectiveness and a reasonable UX that is a bit off putting at first but makes a lot of sense later on.

That said, I'd genuinely be curious what you think jj has improved upon git.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The command line of jj makes sense and is easy to understand. I have to use graphical git clients because I want to cry every time I have to use its CLI.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's interesting; I find the git CLI pretty intuitive especially for basic use cases most people would need, but I've also used git for 15 years now.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I find the git CLI pretty intuitive

You might be the first person to ever say that! How do I delete a remote branch?

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

I have only been using it for ~ 4 years and the UX seems pretty logical even for not-basic cases.

Maybe because it was only my second VCS^[the first one being folders with timestamps], it didn't seem at all problematic to me. On the contrary, every time, I just found myself going "nice", whenever I found a new feature.

When it comes to git restore ., well, you won't use rm -rf * in your working directory, right?

I haven't used git based GUIs much. Some of the functions that my IDE provides, I use now and then. Being able to see the git blame for a file, right in place, scrolled to the same line as I was looking at the code, helps quite a bit (and so does the git based annotations).
But for things like commit, restore, pull, push, rebase and things that will write something, I just use the CLI, because I feel like I know what is going to happen ad that gives me confidence.