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richajak on Sept 18, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub CLI 1.0

I have never really grokked the concept of git to push or pull, commit or diff the code that I write. Tried to convince myself a few times that is best practise from the industry. I still tgz my source code before I intend to make substantial change.

Github for me is simply a repo of open source code that I can inspect before I use someone else library.

sagarm on Sept 18, 2020 [–]

Source control is well worth the learning curve. Git is harder to learn than most, though. I hear Mercurial is easier to learn; maybe give it a try?

gregplaysguitar on Sept 19, 2020 | [–]

Isn’t mercurial pretty much dead? I know Bitbucket dropped support for it last year. I’ve also found it no more intuitive than git personally.

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