Gregory's Server@b0rk Yes! And that there are always at least 3 copies of all references in play at once (yours, the remote's, and your most recently-made copy of the remote's). The mental model is quite a lot to internalize, as powerful as the resulting tool may be.
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 @graydon @b0rk As someone who honestly has stopped contributing anything that can’t be done via GH web interface in part because I find git monumentally confusing, I wonder if jj (which looked very promising to me, a no-longer-active-dev) actually does what it promises to remedy some of these mental model challenges? Or is it off on the wrong track?  @luis_in_brief @graydon i haven't figured out how to get jj to compile yet but I want to try it out! definitely curious about it  @b0rk @luis_in_brief @graydon All I ever understood from the “plumbing va porcelain” debate was that git might be a very good foundation for a usable version control system, if only someone would use it to build one. Is this it? |
@graydon @b0rk Gollum Wiki was a puzzle at first because it doesn't look at the checked out workspace but only the local branch head. Pay no attention to the filesystem behind the curtain...