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Dangit, Git! blog about ferociously confusing version control system

Rob Beschizza
Jan 17, 2025
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Katie Sylor-Miller's Oh Shit, Git is a good old fashioned blog about Git, the version control system that now dominates development life. Though a marked improvement on the olden days of version control, it is complicated and difficult and harrowing—hence the "Oh, shit" part. [via Hacker News]

Git is hard: screwing up is e…

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