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0 pointsSQueeeeeL6y ago0 comments

Never understand? I mostly use Git CLI, and it's a big pain. Weird terminology, needing to memorize branch names for easy use, differences between staged and pushed commits. And when you mess your incantation you ripped from SO up you get errors with strange terminology. I understand it's benefits and use it, but older simpler versioning systems like SVN had their own benefits.

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pizza2346y ago

While there are definitely UX problems, the following aren't:

- needing to memorize branch names for easy use: there is tab completion for this;

- differences between staged and pushed commits: I'm not sure what you refer here. the closest concept to the "stage" term is "staged changes". this is by design; the idea is that while one applies changes within a single commit, some are definitive, some are evolving; for this workflow, it's very convenient. if one doesn't want, they can just add all and commit (preferrably, with a single alias ;-)).

The "most extensive" Git UX problem is possibly the excess of functionality given to the `checkout` command, which in fact is being split.

(I don't imply that Git UX is good, though)

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