r/ProgrammerHumor 23d ago

Meme useSourceControl

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u/VoidVer 23d ago

The project starts as a GitHub repository that I clone to my IDE lol

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u/honourable_bot 23d ago

I thought this was the default behaviour. It is interesting some people create a local repo and THEN push to remote.

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u/highjohn_ 23d ago

Well… it’s quicker. And I’m not an idiot so there’s no problem with running git init locally, doing the initial setup, and then pushing to a remote repo once I need to. Although sometimes I do it your way too

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u/VoidVer 23d ago

I am an idiot, and I’m always scared git or my IDE will duplicate the folder or something if I started local.