Confusing Git Terminology(jvns.ca)

491 points by soheilpro 3 years ago | 257 comments

Julia Evans blog post explaining confusing git terms like HEAD, detached HEAD, fast-forward, and staging area, based on answers from Mastodon.

Some Miscellaneous Git Facts(jvns.ca)

23 points by qsantos 3 years ago | 1 comments

Do we think of Git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?(jvns.ca)

168 points by soheilpro 2 years ago | 167 comments

Git Branches: Intuition and Reality(jvns.ca)

347 points by tambourine_man 2 years ago | 215 comments

Julia Evans blog post comparing an intuitive mental model of git branches with how git actually represents branches internally.

Fear makes you a worse programmer (2014)(jvns.ca)

181 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 88 comments

When your coworker does great work, tell their manager (2020)(jvns.ca)

505 points by vikrum 3 years ago | 310 comments

Julia Evans blog post arguing you should tell a coworker's manager when they do great work, summarizing advice gathered from Twitter replies.