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Jon Saints
Personal blog · saintsjd.comprogrammingproductivity
Jon Saints's personal blog at saintsjd.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “GUM: A better CLI for Git”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jon Saints's posts on git, including git undo and reflog use and deploying with git. One commenter cites a deployment post as a better-documented version of the same idea.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- GUM: A better CLI for Git2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-30
What Hacker News says?
One can argue semantics whether you call it a UI or a CLI, but hey. There's a number of GUI clients out there that depending on your criteria could be considered better. They're usually not as powerful as the CLI client though, and if they are, features like accessing the reflog are hard to find and use. There's also a few alternative CLIs out there, I've just done a quick googling and came across http://www.saintsj…
Comment linking /2012/01/a-better-ui-for-git/
on “Git Undo”Submitted GUM: A better CLI for Git as a story · 305 points
HN discussionHere is the same principle, but better documented: http://www.saintsjd.com/2011/03/automated-deployment-of-word...
Comment linking /2011/03/automated-deployment-of-wordpress-using-git/
on “GIT is the new FTP”Submitted A Better Way to Visualize Your Organization: Trees Instead of Squids as a story · 1 points
HN discussion