People rarely use complicated git commands on the weekend, and I have the data to prove it.

Preamble: We've been running an experimental project to catalog good evergreen guides on DEV. Some initial work is available here if you're curious. It's a low-key experiment so don't read too much into what's currently there. But that's an aside to the topic of this post.

In tracking the project, I've been keeping an eye on traffic coming to these guides based on how we organize things — and by starting with CSS and Git topics, I noticed something pretty stark: Weekend git traffic falls off wayyyyy more than CSS.

CSS traffic falls by about 40-50% on weekends. Git search traffic falls by about 80%. 🤯

This isn't exactly surprising — it's just interesting to see. On the weekend, work is most likely to be solo — and use of git, if at all, is most likely in a pretty straightforward way with minimal branching.

Remember, this is not overall development, it is git relative to another pretty ubiquitous tool. I think it's unlikely people who have git as part of their flow at all don't use it on their weekend projects — but I expect that they are way more likely to stay within their comfort zone and routine, and do not have to look up git commands nearly as often as in a collaborative work environment.

The Practical Dev

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I know Git, depending on what you mean by "know".

17:58 PM - 08 Aug 2016

Happy branching ❤️