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by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 1323 days ago
It's flat out amazing how often people want to complicate git.

My current company, everyone is in love with git flow. I pointed out the person who originally created it literally wrote a blog post explaining why it was designed for very specific needs that most projects don't have, and yet ...

I constantly see people doing presentations on how this is all supposed to work. And why? You can get away with very simple flows.

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People love bikeshedding.

Git is also somewhat symbolic: you're a "real" programmer if you use it and not if you don't. I guess an advanced use of git makes you "realer". I think there's an element of "tidiness" to it as well.

It's definitely cultural more than technical. More tabs vs spaces rather than static vs. dynamic typing.