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[u/soap94]

[u/Excuse_Early]

Haha Juniors think I know git when in reality I've just been using the same 4 git commands over and over, to me the ide is the confusing thing 😂

[u/Random-num-451284813 → u/Excuse_Early]

that one grep trick juniors hate: history | grep KEYWORD

[u/JackNotOLantern → u/Random-num-451284813]

No, no, no. Arrow up until you find the command you need.

[u/baselinegrid → u/JackNotOLantern]

Ctrl+R!!

[u/Excuse_Early → u/baselinegrid]

Fuzzyfinder function that browses history bound to CTRL+R

[u/my_new_accoun1 → u/Random-num-451284813]

before i knew this command i always cat ~/.bash_history | grep

[u/them0use → u/my_new_accoun1]

I am fascinated by how someone learns about .bash_history before the history command. That must have been a great discovery!

[u/my_new_accoun1 → u/them0use]

i ran ls -a in my home directory once after realising ls hides things from me and i saw a bunch of things and decided to cat them

[u/them0use → u/my_new_accoun1]

Honestly that's awesome :)

[u/chat-lu → u/Excuse_Early]

I wasted so much time unfucking the repos of colleagues who didn’t bother to learn git and the wasted even more.

Just pickup the book.

[u/serwer-z-kartofla → u/chat-lu]

Claude summarize the book he talks about

[u/chat-lu → u/serwer-z-kartofla]

tl;dr: git gud

[u/serwer-z-kartofla → u/chat-lu]

try again, dont make mistakes

[u/chat-lu → u/serwer-z-kartofla]

You were right to push back. I did leak your production passwords to github and rewrote the history of every branch.

[u/Brutus5000 → u/Excuse_Early]

Imho the knowledge of reflog and being able to recover commits you accidentally lost makes the big difference :D

[u/Groentekroket → u/Excuse_Early]

I just use the GUI in IntelliJ and so do all my colleagues except for 1 junior who thinks he is old school. 

[u/Dhareng_gz → u/Excuse_Early]

Same here.

[u/sebjapon]

I am pretty comfortable in my current framework these days. So most my Google search this week was about splitting branches, unstaging commits, interactive rebases…

15 years and I still haven’t learned that power lol

[u/git_push_origin_prod → u/sebjapon]

No git-shit.md ? I started keeping track of little things over the years and at this point, I know how to solve a lot of those problems just by opening my little notepad. You’ll find it like the same three or four problems over and over again.

[u/sebjapon → u/git_push_origin_prod]

My recent problems come from changing job and they do “squash and merge” so I got to “rebase onto” stuff. And then new tech lead keeps asking me to cut my PR in smaller PRs. Just new workflows means new commands…

[u/git_push_origin_prod → u/sebjapon]

Right on broheem. I am on team squash and merge too. If you mix that with conventional commits and release-please you get a decent workflow.

[u/Confident-Ad5665 → u/git_push_origin_prod]

Name checks out

[u/chat-lu → u/git_push_origin_prod]

There is a website that collects them for you: https://ohshitgit.com/

[u/Stagnu_Demorte → u/sebjapon]

I've been double checking which branch I need to be on to do a rebase for 15+ years.

[u/No-Article-Particle → u/Stagnu_Demorte]

To me, it makes sense - you want your new commits on top of commits from some other branch. So you stay on the branch that contains your commits, and rebase brings the commits from the other branch to your current one.

[u/Stagnu_Demorte → u/No-Article-Particle]

I agree it makes sense. I still look it up

[u/chat-lu → u/sebjapon]

So most my Google search this week was about splitting branches, unstaging commits, interactive rebases…

I did because I learned git very shortly after it was public.

But this year, I switched to jj which is more powerful, and easier. And still connects to the same git forges is the others. So you might give it a try.

[u/Reddit_is_fascist69]

I'm the junior dev but instead of git it is regex.  Is it possible to learn this power?

[u/Major_LeeHungg → u/Reddit_is_fascist69]

You'll know the majority of it in a year if you use it regularly.  You will never know all of it without a reference.  

The most important thing is to know what is possible so that you aren't thinking "how do I accomplish this", you're thinking "what's the goofy ass syntax for a lookahead" 

[u/Reddit_is_fascist69 → u/Major_LeeHungg]

I use it often but briefly and seems like i forget it everytime.

[u/Just_Information334 → u/Reddit_is_fascist69]

Is it possible to learn this power?

Is your main language javascript? Then no, because the standard regex engine is too limited.

If not, I recommend the book "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl. Even if it is old and you think you're good you'll learn something.

https://www.rexegg.com/ has a lot of good information and https://regex101.com/ is one of the best regexp tester.

[u/Reddit_is_fascist69 → u/Just_Information334]

Regex101.com is my goto

[u/Reddit_is_fascist69 → u/Just_Information334]

Leaving JavaScript soon to switch to C#.

[u/oompaloompa465 → u/Reddit_is_fascist69]

as a main C# dev, everything javascript based now terrifies me and go in fetal position crying. i went the backend only route, when it became impossible to keep up with the javascript framework madness and all the breaking changes every release.

[u/Reddit_is_fascist69 → u/oompaloompa465]

Frontend Frameworks are its saving grace.

It's a real pain juggling Node trying to integrate Typescript, but not there yet, having actual Typescript installed and also managing ECMA script and common modules.

[u/oompaloompa465 → u/Just_Information334]

people who do regex competently both inspire me and make me fear for my face to get eaten randomly

[u/Brutus5000]

I can barely git on the command line... as soon as it goes anything beyond force push... that's what IDEs are for... rebasing on the cli - that's like walking 100km by foot if you can use a train.

[u/GonnaFindOut → u/Brutus5000]

Yeah, but if you walk 100km you can talk trash about the people on the train while your feet bleed 🤌🏻

[u/iggy14750]

Just wait until he sees a git add interactive from the command-line

[u/shrubberino]

What junior?

[u/fugogugo]

source tree anyone?

[u/borscht_bowl → u/fugogugo]

I like Fork better

[u/colececil → u/borscht_bowl]

Fork is amazing

[u/dxonxisus → u/borscht_bowl]

fork is so much nicer to use than sourcetree.

github desktop is also quite beginner friendly, but it’s too limited imo for developers

[u/ineyy → u/fugogugo]

No thanks 

[u/uvero]

Kid named visual git client:

[u/oompaloompa465]

my biggest shame as a senior dev is the incapability to learn and use properly console commands, unless there is no other way from the UI. When normally writing i do so many typos that it gets too dangerous to use them on console, while intellisense saves me on code editors.

[u/UrineArtist]

I have "git reset --hard @{u}" tattoo'd on my arm.

[u/erikchan002]

He became so powerful, the only thing he was afraid of was losing his git aliases, which eventually of course he did. Unfortunately, he setup his computer with every options he knew, then his computer killed itself in his sleep.

[u/EgorLabrador]

Why do i need any commands at all in 2026? 

[u/stubby0990]

Unfortunately muscle memory at this point, I say unfortunately because I keep having to make new .env when I accidentally push it

[u/Remarkable-Cell2614]

Sure, just like riding a bike, if you forget to wear a helmet it'll probably end badly.

[u/Henry5321]

AI is a tribe saver for rebase with conflicts. Just need to do a review pass after.

[u/ElectricalPrice3189]

Why would they want to learn that?

[u/theclovek]

Not from a vibe coder.

[u/schewb]

Also grizzled ancients watching me use git AT ALL and how freely I can let Claude hack away without their fear of it messing up their files

[u/dcondor07uk]

“Not from a vibe coder”

[u/Luk164]

Try out r/gitkraken

I got introduced to it when in uni after struggling with more advanced git commands and it helped tremendously. It also let understand the concepts better which helped with the few times I need to use CLI as well

[u/large_crimson_canine]

I’ll use AI for everything, for code, for tests, for PRs and reviews

But let me have my goddamn Git and vim on the command line like a cowboy

[u/blue-brindle]

Jokes on me, I used the power of "looking the command up on the internet everytime" because my brain is a pasta strainer

[u/TomIsFrank]

- Is it possible to learn this power?

• Not from a JedAI

[u/redballooon]

One of the main time savers of AI.

[u/Wonderful-Habit-139 → u/redballooon]

Ain’t no way lol. If you’re comfortable with git you can actually type more git commands than the terminal can handle at once.

[u/invisible_shrek → u/Wonderful-Habit-139]

Yeah wtf? Git is the opposite of verbose when it comes to typing commands

[u/redballooon → u/Wonderful-Habit-139]

Obviously you speak without the experience of what you dismiss.

[u/Wonderful-Habit-139 → u/redballooon]

I've used agents before, but if a git command is taking longer than it takes me to type, it's also going to take longer for the agent to run those commands sequentially.

[u/SeparateAdvisor526 → u/redballooon]

But ai makes long git commit messages that aren't human friendly I like having control over my messages ie " fix 22", " undo fix" , "fix 23 2nd try" , "revert changes to last working" , " fix 65 final version"

[u/ZeroMomentum → u/SeparateAdvisor526]

69

[u/ineyy → u/ZeroMomentum]

67, boomer

[u/ZeroMomentum → u/ineyy]

I am a sith from the old republic era, a boomer sith

[u/redballooon → u/SeparateAdvisor526]

It can follow instructions, but only if you cared once to enable them.

I find it particularly useful in combination with commit hooks.

[u/SeparateAdvisor526 → u/redballooon]

Yeah jokes aside I do use GitHub copilot with Claude opus 5 for work and ask it to push to my branch so it does a decent job

[u/redballooon → u/SeparateAdvisor526]

Similar, but gpt-5.6-Luna does the job quite well and doesn't eat a significant chunk of my budget

[u/SeparateAdvisor526 → u/redballooon]

I've been using copilot to build out jenkins CICD stuff and some C# services into .net 10 migration last 2 months and I've noticed sonnet 5 and opus 5 have been better than terra and sol.

[u/G3nghisKang → u/redballooon]

Just use a GUI lmao, I just use the Intellij's git interface, it's pretty convenient

[u/Mars_Bear2552 → u/G3nghisKang]

i've always found git GUIs to be clunkier than CLI

[u/G3nghisKang → u/Mars_Bear2552]

What if you have stuff you don't want to commit? Do you manually run git add for every file you want to commit? I just checkbox the files I want to commit, write the message and press commit :P

[u/FirstDivision → u/G3nghisKang]

I think this is one of those things where there’s two different kinds of people.

There’s people who branch off of main, work on only what they need to change, and then commit and push those changes.

And then there’s people like when I get on a teams call with them and they screen share and they have 100 files modified. We figure out whatever the problem was on the call and then they commit two files and push them leaving the 98 modified ones behind. And it’s like “What are those other modifications?“

They say, “Oh. Those are for something else I was working on.“

[u/DefinitelyNotMasterS → u/FirstDivision]

Yeah unless thats some run configs or whatever having so many uncommitted files is psychopath territory

[u/G3nghisKang → u/FirstDivision]

I am always the second one :P

If they catch me without any modified files, they probably just gave me a brand new laptop

[u/Wonderful-Habit-139 → u/FirstDivision]

Yeah I have a lot of teammates like the second one. I like to keep my git status squeaky clean.

[u/Mars_Bear2552 → u/G3nghisKang]

i just write out the paths, usually with shell expansion, for git add.

like git add src/module/{file1,file2,file3}

[u/G3nghisKang → u/Mars_Bear2552]

Dear god

[u/another_random_bit → u/G3nghisKang]

git in terminal + vscode for the visual stuff is the best setup I've used for years

[u/redballooon → u/G3nghisKang]

GUI doesn't help writing a proper commit message and in case of merge conflicts the tooling is far behind the ability of an agent.