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I like to keep Git puristic. I have only a few aliases, because I want to operate on every machine the same way.

Git can be intimidating for newcomers. In the last two years, I noticed the pattern that I only use a few essential Git commands in order to resolve a handful of scenarios. I have written them up: https://www.robinwieruch.de/git-essential-commands/ Maybe it helps some people to get started.

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I believe knowing the low level commands is very important. I don't think anyone should use Git Town without learning everything covered in your article. Git Town prints every* Git command it runs and what branch it is run on. That was my first contribution to the project as I wanted to know exactly what the tool was doing.

* Git Town runs other git commands to inspect the state of things (for example: what is the current branch, are there any uncommitted changes). These are not printed but each one that changes the state (for example: checking out another branch, fetching updates, merging branches) are printed

I will give it a shot! Thanks for the clarifications :)

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