Dev Life - Call for Git Topics by Tony Grimes

Git Stories

acidtone — 2025-03-22 17:47:36 UTC

I can do a short show-and-tell of how I structure my Git commits to tell the story of my project.

Git Worktrees

2025-03-22 17:47:51 UTC

This is a new tool that I'm trying out to manage multiple clones of a repo so that I can have parallel work done without switching branches all the time.

What's your favourite Git GUI?

acidtone — 2025-03-22 17:51:28 UTC

How do you undo an "oops" commit?

2025-03-22 19:36:55 UTC

We've all done it at least once in our lives -- we've committed changes that we shouldn't have. What's the best way to undo them, whether it's just local, pushed to remote, or pushed & merged with main?

Rebase examples

2025-03-22 21:13:03 UTC

I get it.. but I don't get it.

Something about forgetting to pull from main before creating a branch? 🫣

Git bisect

2025-03-23 20:49:20 UTC

How do I find the commit that introduced a new bug?

Git & Fuzzy Finders

jackadrianglass — 2025-03-30 00:46:34 UTC

I've been tinkering a little bit with Skim. It's been an interesting experience of piping in input to an interactive cli fuzzy finder and I wanted to share a couple of commands that I've been using

Cherry-pick best practice examples

2025-04-10 07:41:55 UTC

How to filter git commit history that has been committed by a particular user?

2025-04-12 19:06:58 UTC

Delete a bunch of branches

2025-04-12 19:08:51 UTC

Delete a bunch of branches without needing to re-clone repo? (CLI)

What's your most underrated git command?

acidtone — 2025-04-12 19:09:22 UTC

Submodule or not to submodule

jackadrianglass — 2025-04-12 19:29:05 UTC

Basically how do you organize your libraries. Mono-repo or polyrepos. I've done both

Long Lived Branches

2025-04-12 19:30:51 UTC

How best to handle a long lived branch. When the main branch is rapidly evolving.

What kind of Branching strategy works for you?

2025-04-12 19:36:26 UTC

I have always been partial to feature branching, but would be interested to know if there is anything that works better for others.

Do people use git stash frequently?

2025-04-12 19:40:31 UTC