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Four Ways to Keep Junk Out of Git

Source control is a vital part of software development, but you don’t always want it to keep track of everything. Passwords, temporary changes, and desperate debugging edits are best kept out of version control. I’ve found four effective ways to handle this.
Tagged: source controlPosted on April 16, 2019 by Brian Vanderwal in Developer Tools5 Comments
2019.04.16

Avoid Git Peril with –force-with-lease

It is no secret that git push --force is dangerous. Without question, it will replace the remote with your local changes—and it won’t stop to check if that will override any changes pushed up to remote in the process. When working in a shared repository, this spells danger for even the most careful developer team.
Tagged: git source controlPosted on December 17, 2018 by Meredith Lind in Developer Tools
2018.12.17

What’s Under the Hood in Git?

Git is the ubiquitous version management tool, but most of us work with it only through the higher-level commands. However, under the hood, it uses just a small set of powerful commands. Today, I’m going to walk you through the process Git takes to go from untracked files to commits on master. I’ll cover some […]
Tagged: source controlPosted on August 9, 2018 by Jarek Wojciechowski in Developer Tools
2018.08.09

Why I Git Commit Too Much

I recently joined a new project, and one of my teammates asked me, “Why do you commit so much?” I decided to write this post to explain my reasoning to him and anyone else who might come across my work in the future.
Tagged: git source controlPosted on November 11, 2015 by Jeff Burt in Development Practices7 Comments
2015.11.11

Sticky Documentation, Part 2: Source Control History as Documentation

Last week, I introduced a concept I’m calling “sticky documentation” and reviewed a few ways that we can make the most of the “stickiest” documentation we have: the code. Today, I’d like to talk about another form of “sticky” documentation: source control history.
Tagged: git documentation source controlPosted on April 24, 2015 by Mike English in Development Practices
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