Gratitude journal - dev edition - git

So, how are you holding up?

In pursuit of happiness in these difficult times, I will continue my gratitude journal.

This week I will focus on something fundamental for most of us - git. I am probably not only one who cannot imagine working without git these days, but it wasn’t always that way.

When I started learning to code, I had no idea there is anything like version control systems. I just made new and new files with names like code_2_0_new and so. You may know what I am talking about.

I learned to use git after that - or to be more precise, I mostly learned how to operate GitHub (which was the same for me at a time).

So, I was very surprised when I was supposed to use TortoiseSVN in my first job. It was really weird, ugly and complicated. Soon, I happily returned to git.

Since then, I am using git almost daily - at work (learning how to use it for collaboration) or in my hobby projects (adding things like pre-commit, integrating with deploys and so). I am no expert in git, I have a lot to learn, but even now, it helps me with my programming tremendously.

So for today, I am grateful for git (and in extension, for all git software I used so far - GitHub desktop){:target=”_blank”}, GitKraken){:target=”_blank”} and my current Sublime Merge){:target=”_blank”}).

What are you grateful for? :)