Git Tips

Git Tips episodes:

• 03.06.2016

  Git bam

  Stop piling up old branches. Learn the git bam (http://chrshnt.com/git-bam) command.

  
• 03.01.2016

  Git those hooks

  Git has many useful hooks (http://chrshnt.com/git-hook) and those hooks belong to you.

  
• 02.25.2016

  Pretty git log

  Tired of that boring, plain git log? Make it --pretty! See my gitconfig (https://git.io/v20Oi) for an example.

  
• 02.24.2016

  Welcome to the Mojibar

  Having a tough time remembering the name of that emoji? Check out the mojibar (https://github.com/muan/mojibar).

  
• 02.10.2016

  Git's favorite everyday commands

  Some of these you may not know about.

  
• 02.10.2016

  Why doesn't 'git diff' show everything?

  It does! You just have to tell to.

  
• 02.10.2016

  Seeing through the noise in a pull request

  Working with documentation or a co-worker that loves to adjust whitespace across the entire project every time they open a PR? You're welcome.

  
• 02.10.2016

  Pull a pull request

  Sometimes the diff isn't enough and you actually want to play with the code in a pull request. Here's how.

  
• 02.10.2016

  Fixes #80 #24 #16

  How to close issues like a professional when you open a pull request.

  
• 02.09.2016

  Change the date of git commits

  AKA: Make it look like you're working when you're not actually working.

  
• 02.09.2016

  Small commits for your pull request

  How to break up all those changes into smaller commits for the poor soul that has to review your pull request.

  
• 02.09.2016

  Empty commits and why they're fun

  Git doesn't want you to create an empty commit, but you can do it anyway.

  
• 02.09.2016

  Quickly bouncing between branches

  Git knows where you've been and makes it easy to go there again.

  
• 02.08.2016

  Collaboration without GitHub

  I love GitHub, you love GitHub, but there are some hypothetical situations where it may not be available.

  
• 02.08.2016

  GitHub Explore

  Ah, Saturday morning and I'm bored. What can I work on?

  
• 02.08.2016

  Zero effort pull request

  If you're already writing good commit messages, you already have a good pull request.

  
• 02.08.2016

  Sending GitHub notifications to the right inbox

  You don't need to send all notifications to the same email address.

  
• 02.08.2016

  The git reflog

  Oops! Thank goodness git has undo.

  
• 02.08.2016

  Fix that commit message

  Type too fast? Forget to add a file? Fix it later.

  
• 02.08.2016

  Artisanal git commands

  Make that thing you do all the time a git command.

  
• 02.08.2016

  Blasting through GitHub notifications

  Mark them as read - you don't actually have to read them :)

  
• 02.08.2016

  GitHub notification center

  It you get a lot of email, this is for you.

  
• 02.08.2016

  GitHub keyboard shortcuts

  Full speed ahead!

  
• 02.08.2016

  Welcome to Git Tips

  What is this all about?