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by culebron21 947 days ago
Despite having 14 years of experience with Git, I still can't use it without Stackoverflow for any non-daily task. And I've read the internals back in 2008 and understand this, but it doesn't make it any clear how merges, conflict resolution, or amendments to commits work. Absolutely confusing. In Mecrurial a lot more stuff is clear and easy to remember.

Example: I tried rebasing or merging, and got merge conflicts. Started resolving them, git-added some of files, but got stuck, and want to get back to the last commit. git-reset doesn't work. How do I get there? No idea. How does the knowledge of commit hashes, branches and staging area help me? It doesn't.
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ilostmymangoman 947 days ago
When conflicts occur when performing rebase, git prints out the following: ``` hint: Resolve all conflicts manually, mark them as resolved with hint: "git add/rm <conflicted_files>", then run "git rebase --continue". hint: You can instead skip this commit: run "git rebase --skip". hint: To abort and get back to the state before "git rebase", run "git rebase --abort". ```

The options on how to proceed seem pretty clear to me.

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culebron21 947 days ago
This is just one of a dozen unclear cases, that arise sometimes in git workflow. I do recall the first sentence in the hint, and I could have read the end too, but it's not clear, why it's "rebase --abort", not "reset --hard", that's why it's easy to forget this and other commands.

Also, "git add/rm" is confusing, because they're not opposite of each other -- 'add' puts the file to the stage area, but rm removes it and makes forget.

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