Comment by promiseofbeans

Comment by promiseofbeans 16 hours ago

People often avoid it because of the name, but Github desktop is pretty amazing. It works great with all git repos (including ones not on Github), and makes it super easy to amend commits and cherry-pick files/lines to include. Everything has handy names, and all the complex operations have text explaining what they do.

GH Desktop's merging, conflict stuff, and (lack of) graph leave much to be desired, but it's already 1000 times better than the git cli. Whenever I have someone who hasn't used git before joining a project, I always get them to use GH Desktop - it's easier for them to understand what's happening, and reduces the messes they cause compared to running random git commands from stack overflow.

stavros 5 hours ago

> it's already 1000 times better than the git cli

Sure, but that's such a low bar, that everything clears it.

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jayd16 14 hours ago

> GH Desktop's merging, conflict stuff, and (lack of) graph leave much to be desired

I think that's more of the reason why people avoid it.

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ramraj07 15 hours ago

Seconding GHD. They have added features very slowly, very thoughtfully; HN tends towards experts (or at least people who think they are). I am aware that I'm NOT good with git. I will never do anything that has "hard" or "rebase" in it without spending 20 minutes making sure its what I want to do. Unfortunately I have seen way too many semi junior engineers who think they're git lords who force push bad histories and ruin our git repo. I tend to suggest strongly that people should use github desktop if they are in my team though very few people take up that suggestion :)

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skydhash 13 hours ago

It's very hard to destroy things with git. Every action is stored with the reflog. Then also, in a team setting, you should want the copy on the forge to have protected branches so that no one push (or force push) on them.

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