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Collaborative community interview for Git's 20th anniversary

From
Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 14, 2025, 12:31 UTC
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<85ea4aa0-c595-4f0b-a2ac-d0113aca464a@gmail.com>
Hello all,

As part of the Git's 20th year anniversary, we from the Git Rev News team are thinking of doing a community interview where we would share a list of questions that we've prepared and we would like to welcome answers from anyone in the community for them. We could gather the answers for them upto a particular time (like 25/April or so) and begin curating the answers into a special interview for this month's edition. The questions are below. Feel free to respond with your answers to this mail thread. Let me know if I've missed to include any particularly compelling question.

   - What's your favorite Git trick or workflow that you wish more people
     knew about?
   - What was your worst Git disaster, and how did you recover from it?
   - If you could go back in time and change one design decision in Git,
     what would it be?
   - Which Git feature or improvement over the past 20 years do you think
     had the biggest impact on your workflow?
   - What Git problem that existed 10 years ago has been most
     successfully solved?
   - Which Git commands or workflows do you think are still misunderstood
     or underutilized today?
   - What's one Git based project, tool, or extension you think deserves
     more recognition from the community?
   - What Git feature or capability surprised you most when you first
     discovered it?
   - What's your boldest prediction about how version control might look
     in another 20 years?
Looking forward to see interesting answers. :-)

-- Sivaraam for the Git Rev News team.

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