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Comment by cedws | Hacker News Reader

Git as a data structure is clever, but Git as a CLI is atrocious.

I feel like, everyone near Git has decided, "Well, all abstractions leak - so we might as well stand in the rain like Andy Dufresne when he escaped from Shawshank Prison!"

Obligatory: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

this is such a good laugh. peak comedy

haha! The flaunt revisions flag is hilarious!

  --flaunt-revision=<commit-graph> - Flaunt the revisions of extra commit IDs that are mirrorred.

Is the tool taunting you?

afaik they're randomly generated so you're likely the first and last person to see that permutation

was wondering how and who created this site:)

It's been around for over a decade at this point.

https://github.com/perotinus/git-man-page-generator

Earliest commits and mentions 2014. But could swear I saw it before that.

thanks for the history on this, funny stuff:)

But that's all Git originally aspired to be. It was supposed to be the base VCS, that you eventually can build a UI layer on top.

Yes, the famous debate between plumbing and porcelain

Still the porcelain is more like cold stainless steel

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