What's the most creative or unconventional use of Git you've encountered?
Do you have a story to share?
Git tip: switch to previous branch
You can use git switch - to switch to the previous branch. In the following example, we see switching back and forth between branches main and my_dev_branch:...
Article argues that git is intrinsically confusing--if you could redesign git from scratch, what would you change? (dl.acm.org)
Best GitHub Alternative?
My account was flagged because I forked and contributed to the project Eaglercraft, and that means my account is basically useless. I have had enough of Microsoft’s exploitation of power and want to switch to another alternative....
Please Add .gitattributes To Your Git Repository (dev.to)
What was your “aha” moment when you finally understood Git?
Story time…
[Julia Evans] Combining Branches (programming.dev)
source
What's your commit message style?
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/1352760...
10 Years of Git: An Interview with Git Creator Linus Torvalds [2015] (www.linuxfoundation.org)
Every git command I use (Cheatsheet) (wizardzines.com)
wizardzines.com/comics/every-git-command/Not OC
Git Battle: YOLO Mode vs. Clean History (hankadev.com)
GitUI: Blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in rust (github.com)
TIL git rebase allows merging commits in the middle of a branch commit history (stackoverflow.com)
So I’ve just learned that git rebase -i allows users to merge individual commits in the middle of a branch’s history. For that,...
What is the point of empty forks?
I see this so often, but I don’t understand it. Some people just fork a huge amount of repos and never commit anything to them. What’s the point? Are they trying to pad their profile for potential employers or what?...
Why SQLite Does Not Use Git (www.sqlite.org)
When do people prefer merge versus rebase? (social.jvns.ca)
Julia Evans (@b0rk) writes:...
The World Before Git (osshistory.org)
Decoupling GPG from Git
Over the last year I’ve been trying to understand why GPG isn’t popular. Based on the features I think it’s a pretty valid thing. This article changed my mind....
Is there a web-based git client? [solved, kindof]
I’m looking for a web-based client, like git gui for choosing files to stage and to make commits. The actual files in the git repo would be edited elsewhere, so that is taken care of, but my google-fu is letting me down in this endeavour of finding the actual client....
Modern Git Commands and Features You Should Be Using (martinheinz.dev)
Trying to setup branch protection rules for the team. Need some help and advice please
Our team has three seniors. We have 3 juniors and more coming up....
Conventional Commits: A specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages (www.conventionalcommits.org)
Why Git is hard (roadrunnertwice.dreamwidth.org)
We Put Half a Million files in One git Repository, Here's What We Learned - Canva Engineering Blog (www.canva.dev)
What's to best way to integrate another repo into my own and keep it updated.
Hi, I’m writing a script that incorporates some functionality from another script. The other script is developed and maintained by someone else, hosted on github and released under the MIT license. What is the best way to incorporate that other repo into my own with an easy way to keep it updated when the other developer...