What's Next for Git? 20 Years In, the Community Is Still Pushing Forward
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The Git community is reflecting on 20 years of Git's existence and discussing its strengths, weaknesses, and potential future developments, with users sharing their thoughts on what could be improved.
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Happy birthday, Git! I like you despite your weakmesses. Or is it only my weaknesses? I don't know, I'm drunk right now.
Like sure these eighteen pages contain the information I need, but what I wanted was a reminder that '-D' is the branch delete switch. It's a goddamn waste of my time to parse a manpage, it's faster to switch to my browser, open a tab, and take the summary at the top. Just write terse help text FFS