Post by @paul
It's very early days, but #AlpineBSD has returned some joy of computing to me
Granted, this could also be done with #NetBSD, on which AlpineBSD is based.
But having the tainted repo, where tools like git and curl exist has forced me to consider alternatives. I can install from tainted, but I have it configured that any apps here require me to use apk add git@tainted rather than apk add git so it's a great control measure.
For curl alternative, I'm struggling right now, and if I dare say so, Daniel has been open about LLM use for a long time and is probably the closest we have to "responsible use"
Git however, I can try alternatives, and I'm now using got - game of trees. I barely scratch the surface in my git usage, so got is probably going to be easy to switch to, and so far it's working great. I will use this more often across all PCs I think.
Now, I need to try a new shell... 😬
@amin@polymaths.social well one of my joys with got is firstly you clone the repo... which you'd think is just what you do with git, but it isn't. You clone the actual repo structure into a folder - basically like the .git folder within a git repo - then you can got checkout ./project.git ./project to get a regular repo you can work on
It's a simple change, but what it means is you could have the actual git structure on a separate device to the files you're actually working on. I like this.
And when you checkout the message at the end is "Now shut up and hack". This makes me happy :-)
