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CydeWeys on Nov 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a ...

And there are alternatives that make better sense, too.

But the existence of something even worse doesn't excuse something that is merely bad. And git is so much more widely used that its total overall harm on developer productivity is worse.

icedchai on Nov 1, 2019 [–]

You really only need to know a half dozen commands for basic productivity.

I started in the late 90's when cvs was popular. Then we moved to svn. You had productivity issues of all sorts, mainly with branching and merging.

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