---
title: "Why I Love Git"
date: "2025-07-16"
updated: "2025-07-25"
slug: "why-i-like-git"
published: true
layout: "blog-post"
tags:
  - git
  - programming
  - coding
  - development
  - productivity
  - tools
---

Ever rewrite your codebase with a fresh idea—confident you were on a better path—only to realize later that you actually liked the old way more?

Maybe it wasn’t perfect. Maybe it was messy, inefficient, hacked together. But now, you're staring down a feature you thought you'd never need again, one you casually deleted in your so-called “superior redesign.” And you wish you could bring it back—not rewrite it, not rebuild it, just… recover it.

**This is why I love [Git](https://git-scm.com/).**

It’s a time machine. It holds onto the moments when everything broke, when nothing made sense, when your confidence was faking it and your code barely held together—but you committed anyway. Not because it was good. But because it was yours. Because it was hard work. Because it was _progress_.

Sometimes the progress was in the wrong direction. Sometimes the old, "bad" version had something the new, "better" version doesn’t. And the beauty of version control is that you don’t have to mourn the loss. You can go back. You can surgically pull out that one useful part from a bad commit. You can [checkout](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-checkout) an old commit. You can [cherry-pick](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-cherry-pick) a specific change. You can [merge](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-merge) old chaos into new clarity.

No code is perfect the first time. The more you learn, the more you look back and cringe. You see old commits and think, _“God, I had no idea what I was doing.”_ You see new commits and think, _“Okay, I’m getting somewhere.”_ And in a few months, you'll look back at those new commits and think, _“Wow, I thought I was hot shit, but I still had no clue.”_

That’s [growth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome#In_professional_contexts).

Git doesn’t forget who you were, and it doesn't hold it against you. It lets you revisit your past self—not to mock them, but to learn from them. To salvage what mattered. To fix what you didn’t know how to fix back then.

It’s not just about [source control](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_control). It’s about perspective.

> **Link Targeting Policy**
>
> - `git-scm.com`: Authoritative source for commands and technical grounding
> - `wikipedia.org`: Canonical framing for abstract or conceptual terms (e.g. version control, growth, imposter syndrome)
>
> All links enable action, not passive reading. Each link precedes tool-specific context, framing scope before detail.
