We all have been there… For the beginner it’s easy to mess things up. What are your horror stories with Git?

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  • qwop@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’ve often ended up guessing what things do and messing things up.

    One example is when I couldn’t remember the difference between git checkout -b and git checkout -B, so in my infinite wisdom I decided to use -B because surely capital letters are better! Tried using it to switch back to a branch, and… Yeah, that was annoying.

    • nous@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I would say capital letters tend to be more destructive. So I would not blindly useful them without knowing what they do first.

        • nous@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          What I said was not absolute nor complete. It only includes one set of things to be careful with. The f flag is another that you should be wary of using without understanding what it does.