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GitHub Desktop or Git CLI? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by hypnotic_nerd@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't understand git anyway

[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 70 points 2 years ago

Well, you learn four commands and hope for the best.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 17 points 2 years ago

fetch, reset --hard, checkout -b and cherry-pick?

:-D

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

Nah, rebase -i, squash, fsck and reflog

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Must be an interesting work if you never add, commit or push.

Edit: How the hell did you get the repo without clone?

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

Pshaw, real programmers write out the contents of .git by hand.

(Also, it was a joke, the last two commands I listed are ones you'll ideally never need in your life)

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[-] muix@infosec.pub 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

More like clone, pull, commit, and push --force

>:-D

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[-] traches@sh.itjust.works 53 points 2 years ago

Title text: If that doesn't fix it, git.txt contains the phone number of a friend of mine who understands git. Just wait through a few minutes of 'It's really pretty simple, just think of branches as...' and eventually you'll learn the commands that will fix everything.

[-] popcar2@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago

git pull
git add *
git commit -m "Some stuff"
git push

And occasionally when you mess up

git reflog
git reset HEAD@{n} (where n is where you wanna roll back to)

And occasionally if you mess up so hard you give up

git reset --hard origin/main

And there you go. You are now a master at using git. Try not to mess up.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 33 points 2 years ago

JetBrains IDEs, I don't remember the last time I used the CLI.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 years ago

you have forgotten the face of your father

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 10 points 2 years ago

Linus Torvalds?

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[-] art@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

Learning git will give you the tools to work on projects on any git platform. It doesn't matter if I'm in Forgejo, Gitlab, or Github.

[-] bellsDoSing@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

And it will find you the most answers online in case you have a git related question.

[-] criticalimpact@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

CLI
Though I will admit it took me a while to get there
git add -i is where the true magic begins

[-] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 9 points 2 years ago

TIL!

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[-] hightrix@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

GitHub desktop Stan here. Been a software engineer for over a decade and still love my UI tools. GitHub desktop is good enough 99% of the time.

[-] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 23 points 2 years ago

Magit

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 years ago

Fork

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

Any windows screenshots?

(Fork is also an awful name in terms of searching for it btw)

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago

(there's also a couple more here: https://git-fork.com/)

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[-] JonsJava@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

I'd love to like the desktop app, but I just don't understand what it's doing under the hood when I click a button. When I click an icon, is it syncing my changes up as it pulls down, it just pulling down? I guess point and click is more scary to me when prod is on the line.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Why are you syncing directly to prod

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[-] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Vscode plugins?

[-] Jesus_666@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago

Fork.

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[-] amotio@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Sublime-Merge

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[-] infinitepcg@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

GitKraken!

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

CLI + IDE for git

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[-] beefsquatch@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago

Sublime Merge, for most items in the UI it tells you the git command it will use

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

using LazyGit in tmux has changed my workflow.

instead of: git add . git commit -m 'foo' fg

i just: g ac foo q

and it displays everything neatly

Edit: apparently greater/less than symbols dont render properly on lemmy. so imagine a few (CR)'s and (C-b)'s sprinkled in

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[-] Metype@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I'd use Desktop if it worked, unfortunately recently it decided that I don't have read/write access to a repo I'm working on. Works fine in git CLI so idk what the problem there is.

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

SVN?

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[-] TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.com 7 points 2 years ago

Laughs in Sourcetree

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[-] vsh@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

GitHub desktop for life

[-] tahoe@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Yup! Been using it for years, it looks nice, has a good UI and works well. I’ll use the CLI if I need to but 99% of the time Desktop is the better choice (for me).