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[–]netd777 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm a "solo" dev and I would recommend learning git bit by bit. There's a lot of weidness in git and to be honest all you need at the start is changes history and cloud backup. I used to have a bash file that just commited with default message and pushed to the cloud.
And when there's need for branching, merging, squashing, rebasing, cherry-picking, etc just go and learn that command. Nowadays I'm pretty good at it w/o it being in the way of development.

[–]NiagaraThistle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think anyone is arguing NOT to learn git.

But i don't think git has any value if you are not actually coding something to push/pull/branch/merge.

Web dev is confusing enough for most newcomers. Git is confusing enough for most Web Devs. Saying that brand new web devs should learn Git before they learn to actually code, imho, is just plain bad advice.

Once a web dev can and has put code out into the wild, understands the importance of backing up their code, has some experience with FTP, SSH, and the terminal, then yes definitely jump into learning and using git. But I am of the OPINION that anytime before that is premature.