• @[email protected]
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    191 month ago

    Every time I mentor a dev on using git they insist so much on using some GUI. Even ones who are “proficient” take way longer to do any action than I can with cli. I had one dev who came from SVN land try and convince me that TortoiseGit was the only way to go

    I died a little that day, and I never won her over to command line despite her coming to me kinda regularly to un-fuck her repository (still one of the best engineers I ever worked with and I honestly miss her… Just not her source control antics)

    • @[email protected]
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      131 month ago

      The difference in speed is familiarity, not some inherent efficiency gain by typing commands into the cli.

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        41 month ago

        You’re 100% right.

        But I defy anyone’s mouse-foo to come anywhere near the speed of my typing speed and alias list.

        Even someone mastering GUI keyboard shortcuts isn’t going to be able to match, because my terminal is optimized beyond what is possible in a more graphical app.

        What I’m trying to say is that no one can introduce a thoughtless mistake into production code as quickly as I can.

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          21 month ago

          The real metric is dollars per second of destroyed hardware ;)

          I once watched an engineer blow up a $200k prototype with a terminal alias.

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            11 month ago

            That’s impressive. I’m glad I don’t have any story to match that. Hopefully they find it hilarious now. Probably no fun at the time.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 month ago

      If I want to commit a selection of files, but not others, then I’m clicking boxes not typing filenames.

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        61 month ago

        That is the one use case I’ve seen where a gui is absolutely faster.

        In my line of work, I primarily work on embedded systems or process automation so any new files in the repo directory either need to be added for tracking or to the ignore file. I’m not saying it will never happen, but at least in my experience it happens so rarely that I always try to teach command line when possible

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        1 month ago

        Did you not know?
        You can simply select all files you want to commit, in the File Manager, Ctrl+C, then paste in the terminal and it will automatically add all those file names (full paths) separated with spaces at the cursor. At least in KDE: Dolphin -> zsh + Konsole it does.

        And sure, it might look like 2 extra steps, but you will still be clicking around a lot in case of a GUI anyway.

        I tend to just type partial filenames and use tab completions, which are also pretty configurable. And the only dissatisfaction I have rn, is that I don’t have zsh module for completions with pascal case and snake case.

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      31 month ago

      Currently using Tortoise and SVN for the first time at my job, and I hate it.

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        Welcome to the brotherhood. Haha. Ow.

        Using SVN was like a having a thoughtful professional assistant who ignored half of what I said and occasionally threw medium sized objects at my head without warning.

        You’re allowed to mock the whole organization mercilessly until they upgrade to git. Git is completely free, and the available upgrade tools are lossless. Also git actually works perfectly fine when naively treated like SVN.

        Source: I used git naively like SVN for awhile after (flawlessly) upgrading a huge number of repositories.

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      31 month ago

      that’s exactly why I’m saying this. I know from experience helping other devs with git issues it’s always because they’re using a GUI alternative to the CLI and they’re clicking on things they don’t understand