**viscous nuisance** @tom@slime.global · Mar 30, 2018, 09:39

**viscous nuisance** @tom@slime.global · Mar 30, 2018, 09:39

viscous nuisance @tom@slime.global

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber · 2018-03-30T12:54:42Z

@tom some day maybe I should write up how the conceptual model of git is simple once explained, even if the interface is so bad. "Using" git doesn't explain its structure.

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**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber · Mar 30, 2018, 12:55

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber · Mar 30, 2018, 12:55

@tom "Sure right after all those other things you'll never have time to do Chris" D:

**elomatreb** @elomatreb@glitch.social · Mar 30, 2018, 12:59

**elomatreb** @elomatreb@glitch.social · Mar 30, 2018, 12:59

@cwebber @tom What's the saying?

"git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space."

**pasqui023** @pasqui023@mastodon.host · Mar 30, 2018, 13:36

**pasqui023** @pasqui023@mastodon.host · Mar 30, 2018, 13:36

@elomatreb @cwebber @tom
That's monads

**Maltimore** @Maltimore@masto.themimitoof.fr · Mar 30, 2018, 17:08

**Maltimore** @Maltimore@masto.themimitoof.fr · Mar 30, 2018, 17:08

@elomatreb @cwebber @tom
Hilbert space? I've always looked at it as a Banach space..

**Jordi** @JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz · Mar 30, 2018, 13:03

**Jordi** @JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz · Mar 30, 2018, 13:03

@cwebber Git is never simple. Even after understanding its allegedly simple internal structure, you still run into weird things with how blobs really mean blobs, not just files.

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber · Mar 30, 2018, 13:23

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber · Mar 30, 2018, 13:23

@JordiGH Well... I don't really agree *entirely*. I think that understanding how git works under the hood reduces the number of gotchas a user encounters by a lot