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Curious, in these three hours did you teach your student about git log, checkout $HASH, bisect, revert or any of the other ways that git is actually useful beyond being a glorified FTP ?

Git is a wonderfull tool for exploring a development process unlike anything that’s existed in other domains, but in my experience it is mostly used as a write only tool to deploy code.

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Since this was the first session on the topic, we only learned about add, commit, push and had a quick glance at remotes. The goal here is to ease into the normal flow of weite code, commit, push and then follow up with some of the more intricate pieces of git.

It's really important to me that whoever I'm teaching is able to really understand each piece and build their intuition as we build things up.

FTP is a bit orthogonal to the use case here. That being to have her code pushed up to a central repository, able to clone it on her other computer (laptop), and enable me to review it or tweak things.

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