[_ugfj]

I must admit I usually immediately disregard any fancy new git tools, they come and go and often don't work right and create a gigantic mess.

But... have you seen who wrote this article?

Scott Chacon. If there's anyone in this world whose article would make me try a new git tool, it's him. He wrote the Pro Git book, Git Internals. Oh and cofounded GitHub. This is not argument from authority fallacy. This is "hey! this guy knows git like very very few others, it's worth listening to what he has to say".

[eviks]

This is precisely the argument from authority fallacy, though a bit more grounded than the strong prejudice with a gigantic mess

[keybored]

It’s precisely that which makes me skeptical of it.

> For better or worse, my experience as a GitHub cofounder and author of several Git books (Pro Git, etc) is that the Git commit message is a unique vector for code documentation that is highly sub-optimal.

> ...

> I don't know exactly what the answer is, but the sad truth of Git is that writing amazing documentation via commit message, for most communities, is almost entirely a waste of time. It's just too difficult to find them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39218538

[lmm]

More importantly IMO he wrote the github-flow post, the best dose of sanity in git workflows I've seen.

[_ugfj]

and yet these fuckers downvoted my post without commenting where I am wrong

[obeavs]

Gitbutler is ridiculously cool and well considered. Definitely worth checking out.