Example 4: LSD and Chainsaws
This one isn't strictly of the same pattern, but I think it still captures the overall theme that Git is powerful and strange, and must be meditated upon to achieve enlightenment:
And then there’s
git rebase --interactive
, which is a bit like
git commit --amend
hopped up on acid and holding a chainsaw–completely insane and quite dangerous but capable of exposing entirely new states of mind."
-Ryan Tomayko, The Thing About Git, April 2008
- About This Site
- Git Makes More Sense When You Understand X
- Example 1: Kent Beck
- Example 2: Git for Ages 4 and Up
- Example 3: Homeomorphic Endofunctors
- Example 4: LSD and Chainsaws ←HEAD
- The Internet Talks Back!
- Graph Theory
- Seven Bridges of Königsberg
- Places To Go, and Ways to Get There
- Nodes and Edges
- Attaching Labels to Nodes
- Attaching Labels to Edges
- Directed Versus Undirected Graphs
- Reachability
- Graphs and Git
- Visualizing Your Git Repository
- References
- The Reference Reference
- Making Sense of the Display
- Garbage Collection
- Experimenting With Git
- References Make Commits Reachable
- My Humble Beginnings
- Branches as Savepoints
- Use Your Targeting Computer, Luke
- Testing Out Merges
- Rebase From the Ground Up
- Cherry-Picking Explained
- Using 'git cherry-pick' to Simulate 'git rebase'
- A Helpful Mnemonic for 'git rebase' Arguments
- The End