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===Title text=== | ===Title text=== | ||
− | The title text suggests an alternative method for working around Git's complexities, which reflects common practice: knowing a "Git expert" who can help in any situation. Such experts are somewhat notorious for waxing lyrically about Git's strengths, so it may be necessary to win their favour by first letting them ramble enthusiastically about it. They will hopefully eventually give the exact commands needed. In practice, the question-and-answer site | + | The title text suggests an alternative method for working around Git's complexities, which reflects common practice: knowing a "Git expert" who can help in any situation. Such experts are somewhat notorious for waxing lyrically about Git's strengths, so it may be necessary to win their favour by first letting them ramble enthusiastically about it. They will hopefully eventually give the exact commands needed. In practice, the question-and-answer site StackOverflow.com is frequently used for this exact purpose. |
− | It may even be a reference to the infamous tweet "[https://twitter.com/agnoster/status/44636629423497217 | + | It may even be a reference to the infamous tweet "[https://twitter.com/agnoster/status/44636629423497217 git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space]" which has been [http://www.beyondjava.net/blog/git-explained-in-really-simple-words/ discussed here] but it is inconclusive whether a meaningful interpretation exists. |
− | Putting a telephone number of someone who "understands | + | Putting a telephone number of someone who "understands git" into such a file is humorous because: |
*Software teams would more normally use electronic means of communication | *Software teams would more normally use electronic means of communication | ||
− | *Explaining | + | *Explaining git over the phone to team members should not be necessary, as there is extensive help available online, and |
− | *In the situation where many team members would need phone support to avoid or fix basic | + | *In the situation where many team members would need phone support to avoid or fix basic git problems, this would be extremely distracting to the person whose phone number was given in the file. |
=== TL;DR=== | === TL;DR=== |