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An open ended series on all the git things I've learned - mainly by making git mistakes.
Recently I've been trying to write better commit messages. With my ADHD, my motto is always be writing it down, so I was delighted when my coworker told me about git commit message templates. To start, I distilled down what I was looking to put in ev...
Look, git is hard, and it's almost inescapable in software development today. #gitPanic will be an open ended series on all the git things I've learned - mainly by making git mistakes. There will be a part of the series where I discuss tools for usin...
The last blog covered adding your changes to a remote branch, but what if other developers are working in the repo at the same time as you? How do you add changes from one branch to another? Merging Rebasing Cherry-picking Conflicts Fetching Pu...
When I started my current role, I had been using git in a professional setting, but not GitHub. I was surprised to find out how much I had to interact with other developers to get my code deployed. Let's talk about expectations when working with othe...
Understanding HEAD and refs helps with reading git logs and using git commands. Refs Tags HEAD and head Detached HEAD HEAD^ Refs HEAD is a ref. In git, a ref is a human readable reference to a thing. You can have refs to git information stored in ...
There is no squash rebasing because you can use an interactive rebase to rewrite your commit history. Once you understand this powerful tool, people will think you're a git wizard. This blog assumes you have a basic understanding of git or have read ...
