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    'dancing git' – how to explain git in depth culture vcs blog.hackership.org
    gnunicorn avatar via gnunicorn 3 years ago | cached | 7 comments

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    JordiGH avatar JordiGH 3 years ago | link

    I find it such a weird state of affairs that “git explained” is its own genre of blog posts and performance art.

    Do we do this for anything else? Do we write text adventures about how to code in javascript? Mathematical parody of how to do continuous integration? Zen koans on how to use a bug tracker? Pictionary derivatives of how to use an IDE?

    What is it with git that endlessly spawns all of these artistic explanations?

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      ap avatar ap 3 years ago | link

      “What is a monad” seems to be a similar genre, if maybe less outlandish.

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        JordiGH avatar JordiGH 3 years ago | link

        Yeah, but monads are far more niche. Regardless of the operating system, programming language, tooling, and sometimes even fields of endeavours (artists, book editors, designers)… we all end up having to use git.

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        joshuacc avatar joshuacc 3 years ago | link

        Do we write text adventures about how to code in javascript?

        Yes. Yes, we do. http://nodeschool.io/#workshoppers

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          Irene avatar Irene 3 years ago | link

          There’s also one for Lisp. :) http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Lists_and_Lists

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          Irene avatar Irene 3 years ago | link

          Fundamentally, I’d say that git is complicated and requires more explanation than a lot of other things. But see my other comment. :)

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          ap avatar ap 3 years ago | link

          This reminds me, btw, of a (questionably successful…) attempt to explain OAuth 2.0 with a similar dance.