Git, invented in 2005. Programmers on 2004:

Mate... Theres maybe like 5 "git + singleword" commands that cover 99.999% of all of your uses of git. Its really not hard.

Most cli stuff is a lot easier than programming. If you can't use cli then by definition you're a shit programmer.

Of course if you simply don't want to use cli that's a different matter.

Because they are universally incapable of coming anywhere close to the full power of git.

I can't tell you how many times I've had GUI-only people ask me to unfuck their repo (fortunately not at my current job, because everyone uses the CLI and actually knows what they're doing). It's an impedance to actually learning the tool.

Ultimately any GUI is a poor, leaky abstraction over git that restricts many of the things you can do for little actual benefit.

As someone using git for the last 10 years by now: you're wrong. No UI has managed to give me access to all the fuckery I often do very quickly on the command line. I was honestly surprised to see IntelliJ nowadays supports an interactive rebase, but reflog, which should be a basic git feature, is still not widely supported in most IDEs in 2025. Or adding, resetting or checking out files with regex. Setting up and modifying lfs. And these are all basic features, good luck doing something like using branch~n syntax for some of the operations etc.

Git UI is shit and will be for a long time.

You know, none of the “AI is dangerous” movies thought of the fact that AI would be violently shoved into all products by humans. Usually it’s like a secret military or corporate thing that gets access to the internet and goes rogue.

In reality, it’s fancy text prediction that has been exclusively shoved into as much of the internet as possible.

My comment stands

I'm not. I'm talking about in companies where dev A wants dev B to do some work, but they don't use git or any kind of source control, so you email over a cursed ZIP file, then dev B does the work and sends it back with a different name. It's a highly cursed situation.

That's why I take a screenshot of my desktop before something stupid just in case.

Or use VCS like a normal dev

I'm not in any war thunder servers.

I'd feel sorry for them. My personal projects will only harm them.

Now Target owns them, I think.

"We've always done things this way, we ain't changing!" - some folks in the Foss community, like those RCS maintainers

We still use RCS at work. For config files for our network monitoring. Works fine still.

which is about exactly as old as git.

Wdym by that?

You know, CVS wasn't really that bad, just primitive and outdated.

Or gnu arch

Luckily I'm young enough that I never had to use RCS.

And then years from now when this all comes to a head, they’re gonna hire some poor schmucks to fix that crappy code

God bless DCVS.

🤮

But actually...

It is good for some things. It even got support for staging files recently.

Yeah this what you get when you code based on vibes.

Yeah, a coworker (also a trainee) spent 2 days trying to debug some C# MVC thing. It took me around 5 mins, from having last seen C# code 7 years ago, to realizing that the quotes were part of the literal string and needed to be checked too.

Well he did literally everything with the internal ChatGPT instance (or so a coworker said, I don't know which model actually runs there). I asked if he wrote JS code, he said no. Well even though there was JS in the cshtml file, he technically didn't lie, as he didn't write it.

Haha I literally thought of this exactly, Garry's Mod. Why do I need this tortoise crap, just gimme a zip. Ah, summer child.

Oh god, thanks for that fucking PTSD bomb

SVN is fine for most corporate workflows. Your project is probably not anything like Linux.

The best is when the version also had the name of an ex employee on it.

eh heheh we still use clearcae hehe … heh

Thank god, we STILL use TFS at work, and its core version control model is reeeeeally fucking awful.