I just will gitignore it.

This is sarcastic video telling you how good git is! This guy works for github, actually.

This was immensely different from what I had imagined when I saw the title. Good job.

Git represents more of Linus's own work than Linux, which was a much larger collaboration. It shows how smart the guy is & how he kept working on a new project when others were just 1 hit wonders.

I don't git why he is pushing his opinion on us so hard. It's like his head is up in the cloud. I think we need to pull away from this thinking and branch out our own thoughts. If we commit to that, then everyone can merge together in harmony. Until then, I'm going to stash my thoughts here and hopefully someone can reap from them.Ignore them if you will.

I get the sarcasm alright but it was not really worth 5 minutes

So many downvotes. You guys realize, this was total sarcasm right? He talked about the positives, then cast them in a way that made it sound like there was some mystical harm that was happening. Some of them weren't funny, most of them were, and he's highlighting the awesome parts of git. Really, before downvoting, watch the whole video.

I wasted 5 minutes of my life...

a tech comedian? what kind of witchcraft is this?

I had a client once who insisted on "helping" with coding. He considered it a waste of time to to use SVN and to test locally. Instead, he'd just upload untested code to the production webserver and hope there were no version conflicts or bugs. Since the customer is always right, I couldn't explain what an incompetent moron he was.

"Kids these days use git and develop so fast.. back in my day, we used to spend hours with SVN. So, freaking stop using git" Why does this video even exist?

how can people not get the sarcasm?

A great speech, but with a few problems: - While killing the svn-admin, Git created the git-guru. - Github is *not* free as in freedom. - Git has its cost in user-training. The UI is still horrible after 7 years of development, though using a DVCS does not need to be complex.

As a new Developer, watching this video actually helped me understand more about Git and its function.

Phew! At first I thought this is meant seriously. :D

I feel bad. I feel ashamed. I am going to delete that repo. I am going to stick to old ways to loose my hair at finding bugs. I miss having shiny bald spot that older generation of programmer used to brag about. Sigh...

I've been saying this for 15 years. He is absolutely right on all points.

Well i started to learn Git yesterday and then today i found this, great.

I want to introduce him to my corporate admin team. And after that I want him to give a prepared speech in our weekly Toastmasters meeting. I'm sure he'll steal away the show.

WTF? Is this a speech full of sarcasm that I didn't get? But he seems so so serious.

10 years later. The click bait title still works.🙂

Well, Git is fine but has a few serious drawbacks. And while it sure is possible to overcome them by using it "the right way", I really don't think a good versioning system should require that approach. It's free and it doesn't suck, that's its major advantage. Pretending it has no problems is not even funny.

@MrSUSHI Glad you liked it. 'twas fun to give it and got a lot of laughs.

Click Bait, Click Bait everywhere.

Trying wayyy too hard to be funny.

Maybe the best argument on "GIT is shit" is having to have a clown-standup wannabe-programmer have to elaborate an even more unnecesary and complicated speech endorsing it. Nobody is doing this with, say, Google Drive

Isn't sarcasm supposed to be a little funny instead of tedious as hell ?

Git needs advertising, man there are some folks who hate it. I love it...but many people I talk to truly hate it.

Title is click-bait, but this is a good talk. He's committed to the tongue-in-cheek, totally.

Good advertisement for GIT

Great speech! Laughed almost the full duration of the video!

So many down-votes! I mean..why? I never knew there are so many people with no sense of humour. Though he was not fully funny at times, but that was sarcasm.

I guess this is sarcasm? I didn't find it very funny or worth my time.

I came here thinking I'd watch something informative. But it''s not even funny.

Sooooooo............... use Git?

@xitrumch It was a parody to lighten the evening. I teach Git workshops and work for GitHub. It got a lot of laughs from the audience and increased the Git workshop attendance because folks knew they would have fun.

The sarcasm is hard to find, but when you find it, oh boy...

It's like no one in these comments understands what paralipsis is. This is great.

Well, that was a waste of time.

The sarcasm is real. Not detectable, but it's there.

i don't know why i didn't realize this was sarcasm the first time i saw it

Matthew's voice (and to a small extents) reminds me of Carrot Top.

*sigh* Yet another instance of someone telling me "do not use X" and not presenting an alternative. This is why I still use global variables.

Well, the downvotes probably mean people came here to find real reasons to stop using git. I sure did too.

Git 2/10, would not git push

What would we do with all our Clearcase admins? These people become your family, your one true family your Clearcase family. You invite them to Thanksgiving, Christmas etc. Who needs tools that work and don't lead to opening tickets and waiting for people to fix the VOBS. I also like the Windows 3.1 style of GUI they use. It' so retro.

This happens when they make a show from a profession or science. People want to grab attention, want to say something very blasphemic, then they make a perfomance, and they say totally silly things. And they had the attention for 10 minutes. Wow.

nonsense. git isn't the only only version control software that gives you these benefits. It's overly complex and takes way too much overhead, and the merge capability is terrible. it's become a religion much like apple

I have a lesion on cingulate girus that makes very difficult for me grasp sarcasm. But when he talked about SVN generating jobs this was a clue.

Came here to find out what the downsides of Git might be. But this guy is head over heels in love with it even though, obviously, in denial about it ;-)

One simple fact on Git that speaks volume: On Lynda.com there is a course "Visual Studio Essential Training" (btw a very powerful tool), length 7h 30min. The length of "Git Essential Training": 7h!!!!!!!

That was hillarious. Best IT jokes of the day.

Great video! It has convinced me to start using Git!

Almost 2000 people have no sense for satire. This is about why Git is great, not why not to use it.

He wanted sarcasm, but finished with reality.

Man. The original comment has been deleted. It must have been a priceless remark.

to me, this is obviously ironic, but a lot of people seem disturbed. He makes fun of people blaming Git for bad reasons.

This argument against using git is rather disturbing.

I could not stay awake through this. What were the reasons to avoid git?

I honestly thought he was serious - until his Linus Torvalds slide was on the screen - it took me that long to figure out the sarcasm. You fooled me - not an easy thing to do - Big Up to yourself!

2848 people failed to merge the "sarcasm" branch into master.

This felt like a joke from the very beginning and I knew it was 100% when he said "do you want a free operating system" with a bad tone. Bravo.

He reminds us that communism (sharing) is evil, he reminds us what our values are, he brings us back to our values. We struggled so hard against this evil system and now we admire it. He is right. We must come back to our private values.

We wrote our own internal change control system back in early 1990s, which we are still using for development. Hmm... never heard of Git before, but will check it out.

Tough crowd tonight.

Saw this live at OSCON. Great talk!

People who actually understood the video gave a Thumbs Down!!! Nice Vid bro!!

Proof that it takes more than just sarcasm to be funny.

And you base that on what? Git=tool for sharing work while keeping a history of what happened so you can go back. Agile=a low(er, than waterfall) ceremony way of developing software. The two are completely orthogonal. A DVCS can support any software development methodology. It may provide things that are essential to a particular methodology, but that is besides the point. It can also support things that have no relation to software development for instance document management or even backups.

I followed his suggestion and stopped using Git, and let me tell ya'... my life couldn't of a been more better.

I'm sure, this guy uses git more than all of us

I save the project files on my hard drive, I just create some folders and randomly assing them versions and copy them manualy as I please... I don't need all this cloud thing, I write all my code alone offline, I back them up by burning CDs. I don't even need syntax highlight I got microsoft notepad.

i thought his first point about cubicles and elevator music being nice was actually serious at first, since it seems like something one of those anti-technology hipsters would actually say.

How did you git your problem with git

You have reduced the chance of me using hg by 80%.

He is so committed!

I love the hilarious sarcasm

I couldnt get it. Does he want us to use git or is he suggesting not to?

GIT would be great if it was actually Newbie friendly which it's NOT been watching several "Beginner" tutorials online and still 4 hours later unable to get a simple Repo Clone uploaded to a new repo

You never heard of git? Which rock exactly have you been living under?

didn't understand? Give me the summary

I am getting back into the IT can this be used to distribute patches for OS/Software. Or is it just for developers,

While I think that the fact that this video gets one thing horribly wrong in it's premise is obvious, I still wish to spell it out: It seems to insist on the premise that Git is the only distributed version control program (worth using?). Maybe this could work as general distributed version control recommendation. Because, what about Mercurial, Bazaar and Plastic? I only briefly used Bazaar, and Plastic you have to license, but I use Mercurial for my projects now, and it's free (of charge) open-source distributed version control program that is easier to get into than Git. Granted I don't do 'advanced' things, like modifying history, and it's harder to find free Mercurial hosting (for backing up your projects or sharing them publicly). But Mercurial commands that I do use, like committing changes (sometimes partially), viewing the log, switching between branches, pulling and pushing from/to a remote server and reverting part or whole change from a while ago; are way easier to learn and remember than whatever Git has (for example three different commands: reset, revert and restore, that do subtly different things). This video paints Git's shortcomings and complications as something that is necessary to deal with and get over in order to get into distributed version control, and I think that is just not true, as I explained previously.

More like a comedy standup then a video on "Why to not use Git".

People. It's clearly satire. Ok maybe not clearly. But I'm telling you it's satire. You're welcome.

I am sorry I am new to programming, and electronics but, is he saying people should actually stop using Git, or is he being sarcastic and saying Git is actually much more helpful?

especially when your team lead reverts a commit and it takes all the history with it...

I don't understand the high number of dislikes! This is a nice sarcastic speech on git.

TDLR version of the reason for not using the git please... After repeated twice of the video, I still kinda not get the reasons he gave in the video...

Most of the people complaining about the lack of humor won't even be able to hold the mic on a stage.

WHY THE FUCK EVERYTIME I TRY TO LEARN SOMETHING WITH LOTS OF ENTHUSIASM AND MOTIVATION , THERE IS ALWAYS A RELATED VIDEO SAYS " DONT' USE IT" OR " WHY I STOP USING THIS AND THAT".

Using Clearcase is suffering. Thank you for that shoutout.

I'm a programmer and i've never even heard of any of the things he's talking about.

The windows 10 is missing a button: There shold be a button that when you accidentally press it, closes and shuts down your computer without saving any unsaved work. That is what the apple has. So, windows 10 should have it, too.

2008 people either didnt watch, didnt understand, or actually hate git

3.8k dislikes are all from people that didn't want this to be satire

so repeating broken window fallacy 10 times makes a comedy these days...

what does Daniel Tosh have against Git?

this didn't age well

Omg, the music in the beginning was in Silicon Valley. I must know what it is!