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by jahav 956 days ago
Maybe, but normal developer interracts with sane parts.

Honestly, the biggest problem with git is sane environment for merge conflicts and that is out of scope of git CLI. In most cases, imposing rule for small PRs/feature branches will solve it.

git add, git commit, git log, git blame, git push, git rebase -i --onto. That is 95+% of what developers use (maybe an option here or there, like -m or --amend). Merges are done on CI after it passes.

There are a lot of arcane parts and switches. git-send-email is likely used a lot on kernel development, but very rarely in the rest of the world.

> I've got 10 years in it and it still bites me in the ass.

Can you give some examples? I had some problems in the beginnings, but it was because i tried to be "smart".

After I embraced KISS, everything works nicely. As long as I keep "public" branches protected, any splash zone is very small and at worst, just redo it(synergy with small PRs).