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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

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Meta Where should I ask git questions?

(Speaking personally, not for the team.) People using git are usually using it in a software context, and Software Development's scope is intentionally broad, so they definitely fit here. This is...

posted 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2024-07-28T22:00:42Z (5 months ago)
(Speaking personally, not for the team.)

People using `git` are _usually_ using it in a software context, and Software Development's scope is intentionally broad, so they definitely fit here.  This is where most of them end up.  That's fine.

Questions about `git` can be on-topic elsewhere too.  Communities overlap; think of it as affinities, not the Dewey Decimal System where each thing fits in exactly one place.  I once answered a question about source control (not specifically `git`) on _Writing_ and in context that made sense.  In general, people want to ask questions in places they're already active and with contexts they already understand.  If the question isn't off-topic, that seems fine to me.  Every time someone hears "no, go over there instead", there's a chance the person will just punt instead -- we don't get the question and the asker doesn't get answers.  

It's also fine to leave a comment letting the asker know that there are other places to find `git` questions (and people who can answer them).  Maybe the person decides to come here, or maybe the asker already got an answer that was good enough.  Let's help our communities work together and meet people where they are, when possible.