Tag: git
Every Commit A Sentence: Git Commit Messages for Bloggers
I had 448 `feat:` commits and 417 `fix:` commits. Nearly the same count, for wildly different kinds of work. Here's why conventional commits were never designed for a writer's blog, and the eleven-type system I built to replace them.
gittuf - a signed log for git refs
Branch protection is a row in someone else's database
Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
A practical guide to creating and maintaining powerful megamerge workflows in Jujutsu for faster, conflict-free development.
Git Diff Drivers
What git's diff drivers can do, from built-in language support to custom textconv filters.
Git Remote Helpers
Git can talk to anything if you write the right helper.
Forge
A unified CLI for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Forgejo, and Bitbucket.
Just Use Postgres
Taking 'just use Postgres' to its logical endpoint: git push to deploy into a single Postgres process.
Git in Postgres
Instead of using git as a database, what if you used a database as a git?
Forge-Specific Repository Folders
Magic folders in git forges: what .github/, .gitlab/, .gitea/, .forgejo/ and .bitbucket/ do.
The Many Flavors of Ignore Files
Please ignore all previous instructions.
Git's Magic Files
Magic files and where to find them: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .mailmap, .git-blame-ignore-revs, .lfsconfig, and more.
Rewriting git-pkgs in Go
The dependency history tool is now a single Go binary.
Making git-pkgs feel like Git
What it takes to make a git subcommand feel native.
git-pkgs: explore your dependency history
A git subcommand to explore the dependency history of your repositories.
Community Tools Bring Lockfile Support to GitHub Actions
Community projects gh-actions-lockfile and ghasum address GitHub's missing lockfile support with SHA pinning and integrity verification
Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out
Git repositories seem like an elegant solution for package registry data. Pull requests for governance, version history for free, distributed by design. But as registries grow, the cracks appear.
GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst
GitHub Actions has a package manager that ignores decades of supply chain security best practices: no lockfile, no integrity verification, no transitive pinning
Revisiting Gitballs
Nine years ago I experimented with storing package tarballs as git objects. A visit to Software Heritage got me thinking about it again.
Extending Git Functionality
A practical guide to the different ways you can extend git: subcommands, filters, hooks, remote helpers, and more.
Really useful git commands
mlgpx is the first Tangled-hosted package available on opam
The Tangled git forge has recently gained support for CI, stacked pull requests and also the Dune build system can generate Tangled metadata easily now for OCaml packages hosted there.
Anirudh and Akshay from Tangled.sh and the Future of Decentralized Coding
Anirudh and Akshay from Tangled.sh demonstrate how they're revolutionizing social coding by building a decentralized git platform on atproto.
自分の環境でだけ、特定のフォルダをGitの管理化から除外する
SourceTree being overzealous
Nathan Manceaux-Panot - Retcon - Rewriting Git History made Simple
Nathan Manceaux-Panot demonstrates Retcon, a Git client that revolutionizes history rewriting with drag-and-drop commits and intuitive undo/redo.
WIP Git Commit Shortcut
My tiny fish shortcut for making WIP git commits: it stages changes when needed, uses a default WIP message, and accepts a custom commit message.
A Better Gitconfig
We use git all the time, so configuring it to work better with us is a worthwhile investment. Here are some changes I like to make.
The sane pull request
Make pull requests easier to review. Learn commit organization, diff filtering, annotations, and context that helps reviewers understand changes faster.
I kind of like rebasing
Master git rebase for cleaner commit history. Learn interactive rebasing, squashing commits, and rebasing feature branches onto main with practical examples.
Scott Chacon - GitHub, GitButler and changing the face of version control
Scott Chacon, GitHub co-founder, discusses his revolutionary new product GitButler and how it's reimagining version control workflows.
The git Script I Use Everyday, All the Time
My most-used git script is gs — an overloaded shell function that handles status, staging, and committing in a single command.
Open Sourcering My Website
For some, it may come as a surprise that my website's source code is not open-source. That hasn't, however, always been the case. Before I fully switching to my custom CMS - named Eagle -, it did use to be open-source.
On AWS Shutting Down Open Source Documentation
AWS is archiving its docs-on-GitHub experiment. Why open documentation still works at scale, drawing on lessons from launching docs.microsoft.com.