Have you guys tried magit, yet? 😀

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My biggest beef with git is that nobody thinks that it’s important enough to teach. Whenever you go through a boot camp or even a college web design program, they only spend a day or two on it max and then move on. That leaves people to learn it once they’re actually involved in a project, which is…not ideal.

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I’m still pissed that I was never taught about git in college, even though I graduated before Linus wrote it.

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We were taught svn and git back in uni. Not just a passing mention one day, we actually drew git history graphs on our exams and everything.

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College/uni is supposed to show what to learn on your own, rather than hold your hand all the way through. That is what’s absolutely missing from being mentioned in any of the programmes.

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Yeah I only pay tens of thousands of dollars for an impersonal impossible being to grunt and mutter phrases from a time and place so utterly absent and uncaring of human understanding that I receive nothing of value from it.

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Would you like to pay tens of thousands of dollars for being taught git?! Now that’s a waste of money.

You get exposed to concepts and you dig into them on your own. It’s not easy, but nothing valuable in life is. And there’s simply no time to spend on a fairly trivial thing such as git. Especially when you can slowly learn it on your own while working on assignments, homework, personal projects, writing a diary, etc.

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I already know what I need to learn. You could figure that out with a web search. Just see which skills employers are asking for in job postings. Why would I go to college for that?

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I guess it’s tough over there in US, but here in Europe it’s a bit easier financially.

I had the same mindset as you. My problem was that while I could learn all those things on my own, I never did. There’s something to be said about the power of having a schedule. Uni also helped me in ways I didn’t know I needed help with. It’s definitely worth a lot.

There must be some prodigy people who have the magical combo of focus and willpower, but the majority don’t. Higher ed helps tremendously with that.

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My biggest beef with git is that nobody thinks that it’s important enough to teach learn.

RTFM.

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Lemmy is very young and sensitive. This meme-y post got more attention that usual stuff.

I agree with your sentiment. I miss the time where RTFM was understood as “you’ve not bothered solving it yourself, why waste my time” instead of today’s “fuck off”. People can really be snowflakes at times.

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LOL. Much respect of you’re wizardly enough to just learn it from man git. Fortunately, there are plenty of more accessible learning tools for us mere mortals.

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My mistake for taking the community name at face value.

https://git-scm.com/doc

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