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35 pointstwism10 comments

Previous submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1168553

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=285885

Neither of which has any comments -- and since this is such a good introduction to git, I think it's worth a resubmit or two. All articles decay in value over time, but this one has a long half-life.

Personally I don't think it's any better than those you can find with your first Google search, and I certainly don't think it's worth submitting again and again. But that's just my opinion - by all means downvote me just because you disagree.

I notice that both of your comments in this thread are currently at 1 point. Have you been downvoted "just because you disagree", or is this more of a hypothetical grievance?

My statement giving the previous submissions got downvoted, then someone upvoted it again. Similarly, as I reply to you your comment is on 0, and I'm about to upvote it back to 1, because even though this discussion adds nothing significant to HN, neither (I believe) does it subtract significantly.

The issue of re-submissions comes up repeatedly. I flag them in part because I'm working (in a desultory fashion) on something I think will improve the situation and commenting on the duplications makes them easier for me to find later for my experiments, in part because sometimes the earlier submissions had useful commentary that's worth reading rather than repeating, and in part because it raises awareness of the problem.

Here's one suggestion I made for at least identifying some duplications: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215

Like you, I believe that some things are worth seeing again, but as such I think it would be better to have a library of well-regarded and well-respected articles for people to browse. To me, they don't really belong on HN, and I, personally, would like to see the problem/situation dealt with cleanly as an issue of "separation of concerns."

But I'm probably in a minority of 1, so I trundle away in the darkness. At least it keeps me busy.

Well, that sounds a lot more reasonable than I initially assumed. Thanks for taking the time to explain.

That's great. I'd love a guide for the next step. I have a guy in the office I want to collaborate with - what do I do? Does it make sense to have something between this and reading Pro Git?

As someone who is looking for a new code tracking solution at work, yet is not a programmer, this is wonderfully helpful.

didn't see this the last 3 times but might be just what I need!

I didn't, and this is exactly what I need.

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