git out

Also, a way to never have to work again!

git reflog, you can get your old commits back

this is easily fixed by copy pasting the files into a new directory and never opening git again out of fear

One key thing that can help you wrap your head around rebasing is that branches get switched while you're doing it; so, say you're on branch feature and do git rebase master, for any merge conflict, whatever's marked "current" will be on master and what's "incoming" is from feature.

There's also git rerere that should in theory remember a resolution you do between two branches and reuse it every time after the first; I've rarely used it in practice; it would happen for long lived branches that don't get merged.

LazyGit may actually be black magic from Satan to tempt programmers into sin. And to that I say: 'where is a goat I can sacrifice to my dark lord?'

It was conceived for experts so the new user experience is shit and the UI is not intuitive. But it has become such a widespread standard that it is very hard to completely overhaul the UI.

git gud. HA, GOTTEM

It's what americans from a rural area say when they want you to go away.

It's the thing you use to create a local copy of the main code base, and then merge your changes back in.

OP hasn't done anything, and there's 7 conflicts between his code and main. Presumably because someone else merged their changes in the time between when OP pulled his local copy and tried to push his (non-existent) changes.

is what people who don't know vim and rsync have to use to mimic 1% of our power

A very complicated way to do

My project
My project (1)
My project WORKING
My project (2)
My project (2) (1)

sccs

1973

rcs

1982

git

2005

How long are your years?

Solving merge conflicts or rebasing is not simple

It's not THAT complicated but I wouldn't call it dead simple. When you understand how git works internally yeah it's pretty simple but people usually start with the idea that it's a tool to put your code on a server to synchronize with other people and only later learn that you have both a local and a remote (or multiple remote) tree and how the tree really works.

I think the problem is most git 101 tutorials teach it wrong, IMO the best git tutorial is this: https://wildlyinaccurate.com/a-hackers-guide-to-git/

Unfortunately it's pretty dense so it's gonna scare off a lot of newbies.

If it was dead simple you wouldn't need to learn 10 new concepts and google commands regularly even after using it for a couple of years. You probably forgot how you struggled at first. I have taught it multiple times and I see how beginners struggle.

I would actually say it's VERY complicated but in daily work you probably need like 5 commands and those aren't hard at all.