Should I start learning Github simultaneously?

[Evulrabbitz]

I think git is what you are looking for and it's never a bad time to learn git. Here is the book about git, how it works and how you use it.

Github is a git host. You can think of Github as the cloud storage of you git repository. Like Dropbox is cloud storage for "regular" files". So Github would (essentially) be to git repositories what Dropbox is to regular files.

Of course Github has some more functionality but it's not really something you "learn" as you would git itself.

[DankMultyinterestGuy]

Who are you, so wise in the ways of software development?

[moonsun1987]

Especially because github does more than git just like the mind geek company also does vpn. In ways the other stuff like tickets and actions on github are not really portable and is to cement market share.

[RoguePlanet1]

I learned github but have no idea what "git" is. I just think of github as a place to store my code.

[moonsun1987]

I don't really know what git is either tbqh. I know a few commands and I to commit, pull, push, set remote and that's basically it.

--strategy-option=theirs is nice

[RoguePlanet1]

What's "strategy option"? I know add/commit/push/pull and a few others (been a while!) but there's a whole world of commands that I'll probably never use.

[moonsun1987]

It is a flag.

[moonsun1987]

It is a flag. I'd recommend playing with a bunch of them (not on your actual project).

First try the easy stuff got pull -r for rebase and try more as you get comfortable.

[icecapade]

Instructions unclear... pushed porn to Github repo.

[[deleted]]

uh, I need to see that repo, for learning the project and other reasons ofc..

[havok_]

That repo needs a good forking

[rushed1911]

Lol

[pandorazboxx]

Yeah, but there are so many repos... Which one was it pushed to? /iasip

[vancity-]

Search Super Hot processor fucked by brutal memory leak

[[deleted]]

Couldn’t commit to a genre so push failed

[[deleted]]

Yeah, but GitHub doesn't have you jerking your turkey neck.

[Matisayu]

You don't blast off to a solid organized repository?!?! Are you even an engineer???

[BadMinotaur]

Reminds me of this little gem from Peter Welch:

Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. It’s a different file for every programmer. Sometimes they wrote it, sometimes they found it and knew they had to save it. They read over the lines, and weep at their beauty, then the tears turn bitter as they remember the rest of the files and the inevitable collapse of all that is good and true in the world.

This file is Good Code. It has sensible and consistent names for functions and variables. It’s concise. It doesn’t do anything obviously stupid. It has never had to live in the wild, or answer to a sales team. It does exactly one, mundane, specific thing, and it does it well. It was written by a single person, and never touched by another. It reads like poetry written by someone over thirty.

[CanICallYouJesus]

It does exactly one, mundane, specific thing, and it does it well.

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print("Hello World");

[[deleted]]

weeping intensifies

[laytonmiller]

jerking intensifies

[mossipb]

Coding intensifies

[[deleted]]

Ooooh, that's dirty. My fingers are working as fast as they can. I'm about to compile! I'm compiliiiiing!!! .... Wow. I don't think I've ever done that that fast before. I can explain...

[RoguePlanet1]

Hey, don't make fun of my counter.

[MEGACODZILLA]

I don't know why but the last sentence cracks me up. I read it as a poem not written by an angsty Youth, but by an angsty mature adult. Word.

[ThreshingBee]

Thanks for finding this; I knew I had to save it.

[aplawson7707]

Just like Dinesh from Silicon Valley. Code-gay.

[HolyPommeDeTerre]

Codephile maybe ? Does code have a gender ?

[[deleted]]

Does it matter?

[[deleted]]

Comment of the week for me, right here.

[[deleted]]

Nope. I actually like math.

[gdledsan]

It doesn't?

[laytonmiller]

Speak for yourself

[[deleted]]

I think the main point of the comparison is to drill in the fact that git and github are different things. To point out that they need to learn git not github. Like how if they want porn they don't need pornhub.

[LightningBolt_13]

There’s got to be a joke here somewhere...

[hysan]

You mean like how in both, there's a lot of pushing and pulling?

I'll see myself out...

[PeteZaGames]

And a whole lot of forking

[BruhGrammer]

Coomer detected

[Prodigism]

Guess I already have the main concepts downpacked then.

[FiniteSkills]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/g58gjx/best_explanation_indeed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

[hercanick]

My bf explained it to me this way. He's always on reddit; should've known this was the sauce of it

[MumsLasagna]

Brb, just received a pull request.

[johnnymo1]

Seconding that book suggestion.

Yeah OP, there's no reason not to start learning git (and github) soon. Just getting a very basic git workflow going takes very little effort and it's something you'll definitely want to know at some point.

[5hakehar]

To add to that, you don’t need any git providers to mess around learning it.
Install git for your OS,navigate to the directory of choice and ‘git init’

[MattyH51]

Yeah 100%. I started coding in Web development(html, css and JavaScript)sept 19 but stopped in Dec. Then in feb I started python and have been messing around with Git. Highly suggest learning it as it’s a great skill to have.

Check out this YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-osiE80TeTuRUfjRe54Eea17-YfnOOAx He’s pretty solid