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Life & fun · September 4, 2015

Git Town, a high-level command-line interface for Git

Git Town user manual

Git Town, a high-level command-line interface for Git launched on September 4, 2015 with 7 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

Git Town solves the problem that using the Git CLI correctly is cumbersome and repetitive, and therefore many developers don’t use Git to its full potential. Git isn’t just a version control system; it’s a flexible framework for creating various version control workflows. This flexibility means that most of us end up using ad-hoc workflows, either in our heads or through custom Bash scripts tailored to our needs. These manual workflows are often oversimplified, not properly specified, and don’t handle errors and edge cases well. Git Town is a reusable implementation of Git workflows for common usage scenarios like contributing to a centralized code repository on platforms like GitHub,…from git-town.com

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