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Jeffrey Haemer

I’m a high-school dropout with a Ph.D. in genetics; my checkered past includes time as a Marine NCO and as a professional musician. I’ve done commercial, UNIX and Linux software engineering since 1983, especially version control with Git and its open-source precursors: SVN, CVS, RCS, and SCCS. I seize any chance I’m offered to teach folks who want to learn: [email protected], +1-720-837-8908

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  • Feel Comfortable with Git?

    Jeffrey Haemer

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    Folks come to me to ask for help with Git. Sometimes they can’t guess what git subcommand they need. (Git 2.37 has 169.) Sometimes they know what subcommand they want, but don’t know what flags to use. (git log now has 149 flags and options.) Sometimes they issued a command, and Git didn’t do what […]