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Re: Why is it important to learn git?

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Jul 22, 2009, 07:52 UTC
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<200907220952.27385.trast@student.ethz.ch>
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Tim Harper wrote:
> 
> How has mastering the advanced features of git helped you to be a
> better programmer?
I came from SVN, and I guess the most important change for me was:
  Learning to make nice, reviewable, working, one-change-per-revision
  commits.

This must be enforced by social pressure of course, but 'add --patch', 'commit --amend', 'rebase --interactive' and some others make it very easy to actually do it even when working on a series of changes.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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