December 10th, 2019

Replying to a tweet from @SaraSoueidan

I hear ya! I’d be lost without @ksylor’s great ohshitgit.com

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Katie Sylor-Miller

awww, thanks y’all! this makes me so happy :D FWIW I have given a bunch of talks on git that use a visual metaphor to help with understanding the underlying data structures & workflows, and my goal for 2020 is to write it up in book format! vimeo.com/331572343

Ethan Marcotte

you’re definitely not alone 🙌 i’ve used source control throughout my career, git is the first one where i feel lost in the command line interface

Jonathan Holden

So how has it become THE thing? I just can’t use it, though I’m certainly not as clever as other people in this convo. But maybe that’s the point? Gatekeeping?

Katie Sylor-Miller

It is super powerful and the underlying data model is built for speed, efficiency, distribution, scalability, etc. - git really is far superior to previous source control systems and deserves to be the standard, IMO

Katie Sylor-Miller

The problem is that it is a super leaky abstraction, so to use the pure git command line interface you need to understand the underlying data model. There was no UX thought behind the developer API! and now folks without CS degrees have to make sense of it, which is so difficult

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