Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderhttp://zrusin.blogspot.com/2007/09/git-cheat-sheet.html is the classic
Is anyone else getting tired of seeing all these "git tips", "cheatsheets", and "helpers" on here? While these all may look cool and be flashy, I've never used a single one that's showed up on the front page. Personally, I find the man pages + Google to be good enough. Then again, maybe I'm a curmudgeon.
Why is git the hardest to grok for most developers compared to almost anything else in the web dev ecosystem? It always feels like a tool with very less or very leaky abstractions. Is it because the complexity is really needed, or if papering over them and making it user friendly has failed? For example, you won't find a cheat sheet of SQL commands submitted and upvoted so many times on HN, even though SQL implementation and internals are very…
I'm not criticizing the cheatsheet and can see how it can help but if I may point out 2 possible points of confusion for Git novices: If the conceptual boxes of "stash", "workspace",...,"upstream repo" represent a left-to-right timeline of workflow, having "stash" being on the left of "workspace" is somewhat misleading. A stash point-in-time usage can be thought of in the same vertical time-alignment as "index" or "local repository". If the conceptual boxes represent a storage model, then stash being…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 4
- Total points
- 893
- Total comments
- 149
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-09-27 | *Visual* Git Cheatsheet | DanielKehoe | 4 | 1 |
| 2011-04-19 | Git Cheatsheet (Visualization)First breakout · Best thread | adulau | 255 | 21 |
| 2012-01-26 | Visual Git Cheatsheet | palebluedot | 4 | 0 |
| 2012-05-11 | Git Cheatsheet | pauljonas | 3 | 0 |
| 2012-05-22 | Interactive Git Cheatsheet | jamesbritt | 1 | 0 |
| 2013-11-08 | Git Cheatsheet | jcklnruns | 225 | 53 |
| 2014-02-20 | An interactive Git cheat sheet | malij | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-09-14 | Interactive Git Cheatsheet | taatparya | 179 | 33 |
| 2018-09-17 | Interactive Git cheatsheet | emredjan | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-08-22 | Interactive Cheatsheet, Visualization of Git | pcr910303 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-09-18 | Visual Git Cheat Sheet | SiggyF | 191 | 40 |
| 2023-02-07 | Visual Git CheatsheetLatest 20+ point return | breck | 26 | 1 |