Which opensource software does everyone use but you absolutely loathe it?
@nixCraft systemd and git. They are nearly everywhere I need to collaborate with other people/teams and it is always painful. Always find it weird these projects became more popular than the better alternatives.
@distrowatch @nixCraft to be honest I kinda like git. At least it's much better than svn or clearcase..!

@melroy @distrowatch @nixCraft svn never fucked itself so badly I had to delete my local copy, download a fresh one, and manually make my changes again. Git does this several times a year.

#geek

@falken @melroy @distrowatch @nixCraft
I'm so happy to hear I'm not the only one.

I remember when I was learning git everybody said it was super flexible and you could recover from any mistake you made. This may be true but what they don't tell you is that usually it's a lot easier to start from 0 again.

@pinguino @falken @distrowatch @nixCraft I'm curious what you did that require you to fully need to delete and do a new git clone.

Maybe skill issue 😏?

@melroy @falken @distrowatch @nixCraft

Forgot to gpg sign a commit. Tried some of the solutions I found on the web but none worked and they totally messed my branch.

At the end I just deleted everything, started again from zero and just pasted my new code.

@pinguino @falken @distrowatch @nixCraft if you just want to sign the most recent commit:

git commit -S --amend
@melroy @pinguino @falken @nixCraft I have found at least four ways to easily break git over the years by doing simple things that other tools just handle. I probably wipe and re-clone four times a year rather than troubleshoot the mess that is git and its documentation.
@falken @melroy @distrowatch @nixCraft similar experiences, which is why we are still using hg.