A beginner's guide to Git version control

• jj

  88 6,673 10.0 Rust

  A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful

There's "jj", which started as a Google employee's hobby project but they put him full time on it. Not sure how much G plans to push this, but they are endorsing it at least.

https://github.com/martinvonz/jj

I've been using it myself lately and it's pretty cool. Takes some getting used to, but actually pretty easy to recover from screw ups, unlike git.

• nitter

  950 9,644 5.3 Nim

  Alternative Twitter front-end

For posterity here’s [1] a list of Nitter instances. The flagship one (Nitter.net) always gets overloaded

[1]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• git-workshop

  1 8 8.2

  A gentle introduction to git, using proper storytelling.

I have contradictory feelings regarding git. For more than ten years, I was using it daily without really understanding the internals... and I was often confused and frustrated. After investing some time learning how the Directed Acyclic Graph works, suddenly everything made much more sense.

And, yes: it is good to learn the underlying fundamentals of the technology we are using. But, on the other hand, it denotes a rather poor abstraction from the UX point of view, imho.

Now, when I deliver git training, I start by explaining the DAG and how there is no magic, only git. By the way, the notes and exercises of the course are in my GitHub account[1], feel free to check it out if you think it can be useful.

[1] https://github.com/ciberado/git-workshop (https://ciberado.github.io/git-workshop/)

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