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by tootie 4654 days ago
People who refuse to see the ugliness in git are the same people who think it's manly to live on the command line. Using git through Eclipse looks a lot like using SVN through Eclipse. If I right-click on a file and go Team > Replace With > Remote and select 'origin master' is saves me from trying to remember the obscure list of flags I need to pass to the command line to do the same thing.
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jlgreco 4654 days ago
Refuse to see the ugliness? No, I really don't see it. Sure, a few flags could be cleaned up, but the beauty of the rest of git more than offsets a few weirdly named flags.

Meanwhile git through eclipse causes nothing but trouble as far as I have seen. Making it seem like SVN is exactly the problem, git isn't like SVN so if it seems that way, something is going wrong. Pretending git is something that it isn't will bite you in the ass sooner rather than later. The disappointing part is that there isn't any technical reason why git integration in eclipse couldn't be good, it just isn't currently.

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tootie 4654 days ago
The fact that I can select files to add/commit with checkboxes and permanently check a box that will push every commit is exactly what I want 99% of the time. I know that isn't the "git way", but the "git way" has no value for the kind of projects I work on.
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jlgreco 4654 days ago
The "git way" is just whatever way you want. If you want a central server that you always push to, that is fine; there is no problem with that.

The problem is with that particular tooling. That tooling presents a workflow that is perfectly fine (though it is problematic that it does not facilitate alternative workflows, which becomes particularly problematic when working on a team with other users), but it obscures what is actually going on and executes that workflow imperfectly, generally falling over in rather novel ways. When it fucks something up, and it eventually will, you will need an understanding of the basic concepts underlying git to figure out what went wrong. I'm not saying you need to know how to use the default git porcelain, I'm saying you need to be aware of the concepts underlying git.

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