I'm the git expert at my work. This means every time someone has the slightest issue with git (or the git features in their ide), I get interrupted.

😡😡😡

Also I will say it is fascinating watching people who've used centralised version control all their lives struggle with distributed.

"Do you have my changes? I merged them into your branch..."

"You can commit and not push?!"

@irene yeah I'm supposed to do that tomorrow

Git commit -m 'good job'

Don't let yourself constantly get interrupted at their beck and call.

If you start saying "Sorry, I really need to get this feature out, I can meet in a couple of hours" or "I have meetings the rest of today, can you ping me again tomorrow at 10?" you'll be amazed at the number of people who just manage to solve it themselves.

Set a time when they can interrupt you (like "from 1pm to 3pm"). Talk to whoever is managing the team and tell them to do that or to give a training because it's stopping you from working as you should. If that doesn't work and you have the possibility, do home office until your boss complains and then tell him why you are doing home office.

It's shit to be helpful to people that won't make the effort of trying for themselves before asking for help...

Same. I'm the main worker migrating our enterprise off SVN onto TFS hosted git. Good times.

I have office hours set up and broadcast them frequently, but I've had two people show up in 6 months.

The best thing I did was start an internal blog answering the questions I get most often. Even though I'm pretty sure no one reads it, I can at least send links instead of writing replies every time.

How about starting a public manual.
Every time u solved some issue, put it into this manual.
Then can read it.

If the issue is in the manual, and they still ask you, decline with RTFFFM (read the FVCKINGFUCKFUCK manual)

I merged them into your branch...

@dder And that's the story of how stackoverflow was born

@DrPenguin and damn coworkers are not able to use it apparently.

Maybe it’s enough to search for it and paste the link of SO to the public man.