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0 pointscaymanjim2y ago0 comments

I'm frankly embarrassed at my lack of Git mastery. I'm sure I could master it. And considering it's a tool that's integral to my daily work, it's kind of ridiculous that I'm not more comfortable with it.

I've written parsers and compilers, worked on image processing software for the NASA Mars rovers, managed global Kubernetes deployments for Fortune 500 companies, wrote trading desk software used on the NYSE trading floor, etc. Point being, I've worked on some seriously complex software. I'm 100% sure I could write Git itself without any trouble whatsoever (assuming I learned how it worked first).

I find Git to be unintuitive and overly-complex, and to use terminology that isn't obvious. You're probably right about it being an internal objection, but I assure you it's not due to laziness or an inability to deal with complexity. I'm not planning to use jj, because it's just Git with more complexity layered on top, despite their claims to the contrary.

Despite my dislike of Git, I'm still the go-to person for Git issues on the teams I manage. I can fix problems that arise and help others do things right. I still don't like it, and for whatever reason, the edge case scenarios don't stick in my memory.

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em-bee2y ago

i wonder where that comes from. i don't even have a fraction of the experience you have, yet i seem to be just fine with git. not an expert, but not having any trouble with it either, and also the go-to person for git pretty much anywhere i work. and i do like it!

is it my age? (i learned working with computers in the late 80s.)

the fact that i first had to work with CVS and subversion?

that i was an early adopter? (i was the first to use git at my job at the time, thanks to its good subversion integration)

have i just not seen how much better git could be? (am i happy with git out of lack of experience with better tools?)

or am i just different? (i seem to have no problem with weird programming languages or frameworks either (although there was this one perl job where i did struggle and ultimately had to give up because i had no help))

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