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		bigstrat2003 on June 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I kind of like rebasing > I think Git's roots show in its lack of DX. But I'll take it over the horror that was SVN and prior tooling. This statement really confuses me. SVN was so much easier to use than git. It was incredibly straightforward: make changes, commit, done.

Izkata on June 23, 2024 [–]

Merging branches was roughly the equivalent of git cherry-pick. There's tracking to prevent you from pulling the same commit twice, but not much else.

--reintegrate was introduced later, and even with that it was easy to get wrong.

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