12 posts tagged with "git"

git squash to speed up your workflow

September 12, 2016

I am a big fan of work-in-progress (WIP) commits. When I am working through a prototype or a spike, and need to do some experimentation with…

September 18, 2015

I like to keep my notes as close to the code as possible. When I start on a new code base, I create a folder at the top called . Super…

March 08, 2015

Becoming a git expert is essential to efficiency and confidence as a software developer. I have evolved from someone who would re-clone the…

September 08, 2014

Some files become unnecessary to track using version control, but still belong in the repository. Compiled assets, for example may require a…

March 19, 2014

Somehow I had worked out in my head that there could be only one remote. Origin. Turns out you can set and push to a (presumably) infinite…

March 08, 2014

Git, the superhero of version control, allows you to review all the commands that have modified the HEAD tag in a git repo: The output for…

February 04, 2014

or, how to not fubar your git history As with all the git lessons I have learned, this one started with a huge mistake. I had merged a…

February 02, 2014

I learned a new tool that has quickly become an essential part of my workflow. lets you add small hunks of modified code to the index from…

January 24, 2014

Have you ever deleted a file on impulse, only to wake up with remorse later? It doesn’t matter if later is the next morning or the next week…

January 14, 2014

use git clean to remove files from working tree

July 25, 2013

or, How to mine for cherries with Git When I work on an experimental feature in a project branch, I have often found that I will have a…

July 11, 2013

Learning how to contribute to open source projects has been really exciting. Adding value to existing projects, getting social in the coding…