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Developer Tools

Integrating a Visual Git Interface into Your Workflow

I have been using VS code’s git interface, and I have seen an improvement in my productivity. Here are some benefits to using a GUI in your git workflow.

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Git Good: Improve Your Version Control Skills

Git is a powerful tool with many features and areas for personal optimization. It just makes sense to spend the time mastering it.

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Avoid Lint Errors in CI with Git Hooks

It's a common practice to run linter tools in Continuous Integration. Git Hooks can help automate this process and stop lint errors from failing your CI.

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Four Steps To Maintaining a Clean Git History

A clean Git history is easy to understand and tells a story about the project. It's evident when features were added and how they were implemented.

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Git – It Makes Sense Once You Understand It

Beneath the command-line syntax, Git isn't as complicated as it seems. Many issues are easier to resolve when you first understand the underlying structure.

Development Practices

Why I Git Commit Too Much

5 ways that using small git commits with descriptive messages will make your life easier.

Development Practices

Sticky Documentation, Part 2: Source Control History as Documentation

How to make the most of documentation that "sticks" close to an application through its lifecycle—source control history.

Extracurricular Activities

Configuring a Git-Controlled Home Directory with Ansible

I wanted to use Ansible to manage my main development environment at home, with a home directory set up in git.

iOS / OS X

Git Pre-Commit Hooks and Specta’s Focused Examples

A Git pre-commit hook to prevent accidentally committing a Specta test suite with a focused examples (fit or fdescribe).

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Interacting with Git: Cryptic RPC Errors, HTTPS, and SSH

Solving the annoying "RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 411" error. This post also discusses using the HTTPS vs SSH protocols with Git.

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Sharpen Your Git Saw – Aliases, Selective Staging, & Interactive Rebasing

Learn how to use advanced features of Git — shorten commands, stage some changes but not others, and manipulate your history to clean it up.

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Git-SVN Gotcha with Empty Directories

A warning about a potential gotcha with using git-svn, and how to prevent it.