I ask because I like console, but at the same time have difficulties remembering all the commands. I’d like to try a GUI that is comfortable to use with only a keyboard.
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  • Nooch@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    Github desktop is the only way I know how to clone my private repo. I do not understand how to clone my private repos through CLI.

      • MoonRocketeer@beehaw.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        I use Github Desktop but am looking to start moving toward CLI soon for this reason; though to be honest, I only know it’s not good practice and don’t know the reason why. What kind of issues can happen in a team environment using it?

        • variouslegumes@reddthat.com
          1·
          1 year ago

          The CLI and probably other more advanced guis are going to give you the option to:

          • bisect: very useful for debugging. Like definitely check it out.
          • rebase: excellent for clean commits. I use it all the time to squash commits together
          • diff arbitrary branches and commits. Super useful for debugging.
          • cherry pick: useful to apply a commit from a different branch or remote
          • Apply: I use it to pass around patches for things for testing / debugging.

          That’s just off the top of my head and also stuff that you can learn on the job. Good to know it exists though. I still use a “gui” (fugitive for vim) for simple tasks, like staging files 🙂

          • ascense@lemm.ee
            3·
            1 year ago

            For me, I don’t think I could survive without git stash, I use it daily for various reasons (e.g. for validating a small bug fix, git stash & git stash pop lets me attempt to reproduce the issue both with and without a correction). The one downside with the CLI stash command is that it’s very easy to forget things in stash though, but I don’t think GUIs generally support stashing?

            Another one I find myself doing quite often is git checkout <branch> – path, to pull specific versions of files between branches.