[nfinished]

It's tiring how reactionary the average HN commentor/contributor can be. It's not a replacement for standard git commands, it's a set of tools for interacting with GitHub. There are other commands for interacting with repos in GitHub specific ways so leaving out cloning a GitHub repo would have felt like a strange omission. Of course they're going to promote their own tool on their own website, that is generally how businesses work. You don't have to use it, no one is making you use it.

[strix_varius]

> It's tiring how reactionary the average HN commentor/contributor can be.

On the contrary, HN is great because most users stick to the subject of discussions rather than devolving into ad-hominem attacks.

It's curious that your account was created exactly one minute after this post was posted, for precisely one insulting comment.

[nfinished]

I finally made an HN account just for this comment. Feel free to look up the username, it's not a throwaway.

[micromacrofoot]

They're right though. HN users are generally only viewed favorably by other HN users, it's a community that is dominated by reactionary pedants. I say this realizing that I too am a reactionary pedant.

[arp242]

> HN is great because most users stick to the subject of discussions rather than devolving into ad-hominem attacks.

On at least three topics I've consistently found this to not be the case: Google, Microsoft, Cryptocurrency (also: Richard Stallman, suckless, but those come up less often).

I find that these threads often devolve pretty fast away from "the subject". I actually dislike all three of those things as well; I use none of their products save for GitHub and haven't for years. But that doesn't mean that everything these companies do is part of a sinister machiavellian plot to take over the world. And not everyone involved in crypto is a sociopathic scammer looking to steal your money, either, even though I think crypto overall is a net negative.

> It's curious that your account was created exactly one minute after this post was posted, for precisely one insulting comment.

I'm really not trying to "gotcha" here, but you're kind of proving my point with this remark.

[Thristle]

while a PR doesn't exist in git it is no more than a branch with extra data attached to it

I've been using GH at work and personally for a while now and i never wanted/needed to use the GH CLI/GUI, the IDE will cover you if you need it to.

If they really removed the easy to use copy button it would be annoying but calling it "extinguish" is definetly some HN warrior attitude. They didn't remove it though, just moved it a bit and OP is being a bit dramatic