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This is what you get if you learn everything by just googling exactly what you need for the moment. Reading proper books and RFCs are underrated these days.

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Most people learned about this stuff by searching the web back in the day, instead of "reading proper books and RFCs." The reason this knowledge is lost is entirely due to modern web dev taking place within frameworks that abstract all that lower-level knowledge away.

I regularly ask people: have you read the man page? Seems a minimum effort one can do.

The man page for git has 1085 lines on my system. That's just too long with too much irrelevant information to be reasonable to expect someone to read when they just want one thing. I've never used them in all my time in the industry.

ChatGPT is a life saver for me though. I looked all over to try to find how to just see the history of a branch and got a million wrong results, but ChatGPT on GPT4 told me right away it was git log --first-parent <branch_name>.

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