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 of these commands and show how they power Git, but I’ll skip some of the specific flags and details for brevity’s sake. Read more on What’s Under the Hood in Git?…
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.
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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. Read more on Sticky Documentation, Part 2: Source Control History as Documentation…