Comments by "Cees Timmerman" (@CTimmerman) on "Am I wrong?" video.

Clone includes init and pull. Push requires add and commit. Merge is safer than rebase (which doesn't add a commit but changes the commit hashes) but indeed even some senior devs mess up sometimes.
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Most pay for education to gain useful skills. Basic version control with Git being rather easy should be all the more reason to include it in a computer science course. Install Git, open a terminal, go to your source documents folder and run these commands to start your local history that you can view and return to with other tools and commands like git log: git init git add . git commit -m "first version"
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Sounds like trunk-based development, where people commit early and often so breakages can be fixed immediately. Your dad could request and/or switch to a stable branch. His local copy of main might suffice if he stops pulling untested changes into it.
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@TVIDS123 Unless you intend to code. Even theoretical scientists write code, and Jupyter notebooks benefit from Git as well.
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@TVIDS123 "real world software is irrelevant to CS," - Sure helps to prove your theorems though. And trade schools are all about directly applicable skills.
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@MrTeathyme Hence theorems. You don't run LLMs by hand. Hope you keep proper backups of your parameters and prompts without using Git.
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@MrTeathyme The Comp Sci (or Higher Informatics) i took had both theoretical and practical classes, as it was at a University of Applied Science. I checked out the regular university but did not see how hacking an Xbox using a quine would get me a regular average office job. Theory like O notation is extremely useful for designing scalable systems, which small companies often use cheap and eager fresh grads for here.
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