Flowchart to help Git Newbies understand what's happening

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/223663

Hey folks!

I've noticed that it's often difficult for newcomers to git to understand what the heck is happening and how the commands work.

Here's a flowchart that has helped me explain things in the past, and (more than once) folks have asked me for a copy of it to use as a cheat sheet. Hope it's helpful!

I’ve crossposted this in multiple places where I think it’s relevant. Hope y’all get some use out of it too! (Mods, please let me know if I should take it down)

EDIT: added non-transparent image, hopefully more visible for dark mode users.

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Don't know if this is just something that I'm seeing on my side, or maybe you did it intentionally, but most of the top portion is transparent, which makes it hard to parse when viewing in dark mode. Otherwise, pretty solid graphic 👍

Thanks for calling this out! Fixed, I hope. Wasn’t intentional.

Came here to say this. Never assume everyone uses your same configurations when sharing a document.