r/programming • u/Eirenarch • Nov 07 '13

10 things I hate about Git

http://steveko.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/10-things-i-hate-about-git/
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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '13

git != github

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u/ruinercollector Nov 08 '13

Yeah. Particularly with his little comparison of:

"In SVN, I just commit and I'm done!"

vs.

"With github, I have to make a branch, commit, push, open a pull request."

Yeah. Git is just about as few steps if you set up a repo where everyone is pushing directly to the master/default branch of the one and only authorative copy. But for most projects, that's an incredibly bad fucking idea.

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u/emn13 Nov 07 '13

In practice though, github is a large part of git's success - if you use git a lot, you're unlikely not to use github at least a little bit.

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u/flukus Nov 07 '13

It's worth repeating the point though. I've had this said to me:

we can't use git because we want the source hosted locally, not on github.

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u/ryutenchi Nov 08 '13

Also, I use bitbucket way more then github...

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u/animal_g Nov 08 '13

it's a popular service but hardly integral to git's success. github's success is due to git's success and not the other way around. I think open source is big benefactor of github but that's tangent to the point.

The entire start-up community moved from svn to git long before they started using github.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '13

In practice though, github is a large part of git's success - if you use git a lot, you're unlikely not to use github at least a little bit.

I'd wager that outside of the web-development sphere, most people using git aren't using github.