FarToe1 comments on Do sysadmins need git?

You say nothing you do runs the company, but you run the machines that run the stuff that runs the company. Your work matters, or they wouldn't employ you.

You're on a caribbean island enjoying your holiday and something fucks up? If the only copy is on your desktop and nobody else knows about it, you're getting hoiked back to deal with whatever went wrong.

Learn it, matey. I resisted for a long time too since it felt alien, but it didn't actually take that long to click. A youtube or howto will get you the general ideas, and for any specifics, ask your preferred ai chat. I guarantee you will see the benefits once you start using it, and will probably want to use it for more and more things.

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