On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 01:27:20 +1000 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 7:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: > >> There're also various tools for dealing specifically with git branch > >> layout as used by Github, and every real man writes their own (because > >> it's easier to shoot a 5-liner than to review whether somebody else's > >> tool do what you need or not, it's all trivial git commands anyway). > > > > I guess I'm not a "real man" who likes to "shoot 5-liners" made of > > "trivial git commands" on my free time, then. For some reason I'm not > > even interested in becoming one. The part of computing where people > > posture as "real men" (or "wizards") by sequencing arcane commands on > > ill-conceived UIs has always felt uninteresting and hostile to me. > > In the web programming bootcamp that I'm involved with, git is taught > in the very first week. It's not some arcane and hostile thing; the > command line is a fundamental tool that everyone is expected to become > friends with. The students learn about branching and merging > (including merge conflicts) and the pull-request workflow on the > second day of bootcamp. > > Are we "real men" (and real women - we're not sexist here) because we > know how to type commands into a terminal? The patronizing and not addressing the concrete issue at hand doesn't make your opinion about "real men and women" very interesting to me, sorry :-/ Regards Antoine.
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