2023-03-16

Man. We _really_ don't know git.

A response to moddedBear's post

The original can be found here.

2023-03-15-we-dont-know-git.gmi

I read through this and couldn't help but just shrug and say, "same." My college education never mentioned git. Ever. I wound up in some advanced classes early on, and wound up doing some actual programming with open-ended results (not workshop "program this thing the instructor said to do" kind of drivel). I was working with classmates older both in terms of their progress toward degrees and in chronological age.

**Nobody else knew how git worked.** And the only reason I did is having fallen down the Linux rabbit hole years prior to that, and wound up picking up some _very_ basic (read: I didn't even branch things properly or grasp what atomic commits were and how awesome they are) skills with source control in general.

The happenstance knowledge I picked up during my own hobby time before I was even an adult is the only thing that kept that semester-long project from turning into a blob of "Version-17-Final-I-Promise.whatever" files, hastily emailed back and forth, contextless, without any actual true origin.

> "Did anybody remember what we did on that Version 5 build that actually worked for this window? I can't find the file in Google Drive."

Ad nauseam.

Final thoughts

Either way, I don't have much more to add. Merely a voice of assent in a world where tools you could argue are critical to proper project processes and long-term maintenance of both simple AND complex information solutions (not even just code!) seem to have a dearth of proper representation in the classroom.

Cheers,

wholesomedonut at ctrl-c dot club