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[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

But, did you try it? Myself, I was comfortable with working with it after one hour or two - after working with git for 18 or 19 years, and often being the first git user in my organization.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I've started to tinker with it. "auto commit everything" is an absolute deal-breaker for me. There's no world in which I want every file I create to be added to source control without asking. I create lots of log files and other temp files when I work. Maybe I just fetched some .json from a service and put it in tmp.json? Maybe I created a small shell script to automate something I'm doing? I guarantee I'm going to end up pushing that shit upstream by accident at some point.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago

I create lots of log files and other temp files when I work. Maybe I just fetched some .json from a service and put it in tmp.json? Maybe I created a small shell script to automate something I'm doing?

You might be able to put them into .gitignore. But why not keep the shell script in a tools folder?