I’ve never managed to understand how to all those things, always switching between github web UI, github tools, command-line github. Everything was a mess.

Then I left github for sourcehut and managed to read a book about git.

It is still hard but now, everything makes so much sense. When I have a problem, instead of clicking everywhere and blindly copy/pasting results from stackoverflow, I actually think about my problem and what result I want to have.

Yes, the upfront effort is harder. It is like learning Vim or Emacs. It’s hard for the first few days/weeks then you get a lifetime of incredible benefits.

(Bias/context: I’m the author of https://ploum.net/2023-02-22-leaving-github.html )