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Comment by kinkrtyavimoodh | Hacker News Reader

Git being difficult has unfortunately become a meme, and like all memes, gets propagated irrespective of its truth value.

Like I get it, we all enjoy making fun of vi but imagine every thread about vi only filled with people harping about ":wq". It gets tiring real soon.

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I think many believe that "this should be easy, just add commits and get versioning, voilà!" and thus never invest the time (what, 2 days max?) to actually dig in, try a few common scenarios on a dummy repo, before actually using it on a live project.

The truth is, it's not so easy a task to get versioning right and git does, people are not humble enough.

I agree. Usually if someone gives out a concrete change they'd make to improve git I can quickly point out a simple workflow it breaks because they have a mental model of a Github repo with a trunk and branches. Lots want to couple commit and push, but on this machine

  history|grep 'git commit'|wc -l

is 20 times larger than

  history|grep 'git push'|wc -l

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