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> Here’s my theory: novice and intermediate users would significantly improve their understanding and efficacy with Git if they weren’t afraid of making mistakes.

Agreed. When I was learning to climb the instructor told me I would never reach my full potential until after the first fall. You cannot work at your limit until you trust the rope.

However, I think this is still avoiding the rope. Git is really simple and when you understand it it's hard to go wrong. I really think what git is missing is a better user interface. Magit is the only one I'm aware of.




The easiest way to make mistakes cheap is to have your working directory on a filesystem with automatic snapshots, such as nilfs.




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