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Your Git horror stories (programming.dev)
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We all have been there... For the beginner it's easy to mess things up. What are your horror stories with Git?

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[-] HunterBidensLapDog@infosec.pub 15 points 1 year ago

As an old programmer who has used git since Linus whipped it up over one frenzied weekend after his spat with the evil BitKeeper and who has studied its mysteries since before most of you were born ... yeah just delete the damn project and download a new version.

[-] whats_all_this_then@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Whelp, that's all the permission I need

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