Git is Shit

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To fix git's learning curve:

1. Normalize the documentation's terminology. There are several places with conflicting names for the same thing. (E.g. "index" vs "staging area") It needs to be consistent.

1a. Even better, come up with some more intuitive names for stuff. Seriously, the word "index" gives zero intuitive understanding of what it does.

2. Make a dedicated glossary of all terms and link to it religiously. Many of the extremely important definitions are buried in random, seemingly unrelated pages.

2a. Even better, order the glossary so you can read top-to-bottom without skipping down and get a summary of the important terms and their relation to each other.

These documentation changes would help immensely.

Git is Shit is a shit article under a shit premise on a site about things that are shit...

...where's the downvote button. :-/

Git is actually pretty easy for most casual use, and you can scale up its silliness as you need it.

Git better, I guess?

Yeah I've been using git regularly for a year or so now and have never run into having to do wacky stuff like rebasing and whatnot. I just stick to the normal checkout new branch, hack on stuff, merge branch, move on. The more boring and simple my git use the better IMHO.

Never rebased? Wow. The basics aren't so terrible but once or twice a month I find myself going to Google for an answer, that having read a Git book front to back.

And now we wait for the "Git is NOT Shit" response article.

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