1y ago

GitHub Desktop or Git CLI?

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I don't understand git anyway
- Well, you learn four commands and hope for the best.
  
  fetch, reset --hard, checkout -b and cherry-pick?
  :-D
  
  Nah, rebase -i, squash, fsck and reflog
  
  Must be an interesting work if you never add, commit or push.
  Edit: How the hell did you get the repo without clone?
  
  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)
  
  I was scared of reflog too. Had to use it for the first time recently after I accidentally'd a branch that I hadn't pushed to remote yet. I was so glad that I could recover it all in <5 commands.
  
  reflog saved my life once after a stupid misshap.
  All rebase are belong to us (onto, rebase, and ofc interactive) but what's fsck (I don't squash personally)?
  
  Fsck is File System Check - realistically you should never need to use it.
  
  More like clone, pull, commit, and push --force
  :-D
  
  push origin head
- 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.
  
  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.

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