http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2015-06-26T06:26:00Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2015-06/git-roundup/ <p><a href="http://gitlet.maryrosecook.com/docs/gitlet.html">This</a> is one of the best pieces of technical writing I've seen - an implementation of (some of) Git in JavaScript, with a very well written inline description of what's going on.</p> <p>On a slightly nerdier bent, <a href="https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/three/unpacking-git-packfiles">this explanation of the packfile format</a> is pretty great too.</p> 2015-06-26T06:26:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2015-04/closing-some-tabs/ <p>I'm closing out some 2014 tabs, so have a few useful links.</p> <p>Want to make a game, but don't know how to get started? <a href="http://www.sortingh.at/">Sortingh.at</a> is a great step-by-step resource.</p> <p>Using Google Apps-for-business and group mail is bouncing? Follow <a href="https://medium.com/@abs/does-your-startup-use-google-apps-when-people-send-you-emails-they-bounce-ff8a15282546">these instructions</a> to switch to "proper" groups.</p> <p>Think you can recognize your developers from their commit messages? <a href="https://github.com/jsomers/git-game">git-game</a> turns it into a neat game where you try to figure out whose entire message was just "fuck" the most often.</p> <p>Want a machine that make tortillas at the press of a button? I DO. <a href="http://flatev.com/">flatev</a> is the answer.</p> 2015-04-19T01:07:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-10/git-rebase-forever/ <p>Every time I get the message <code>"To prevent you from losing history, non-fast-forward updates were rejected"</code> I have forgetten how to fix it (in the normal case). Yet another <a href="http://www.jarrodspillers.com/2009/08/19/git-merge-vs-git-rebase-avoiding-rebase-hell/">guide to simple rebasing</a> in git. This shit is way too complicated.</p> 2012-10-26T22:30:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-09/deploying-at-github/ <p>I've been meaning to link to this for a while: <a href="https://github.com/blog/1241-deploying-at-github">Deploying at GitHub</a> explains the develop/stage/deploy cycle at github, which can rougly be described as "Like Flickr, but with personal dev environments and using Git". It's light on technical details, but says a lot of the right things.</p> 2012-09-26T21:25:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-07/git-up/ <p><a href="https://github.com/aanand/git-up">git-up</a> seems to be the Git tool I had been missing - fetch, stash, rebase, unstash for all branches.</p> 2012-07-23T19:29:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-11/2743/ <p>there are plenty of tips for removing files from a git repo history, but <a href="http://www.davidverhasselt.com/2010/09/14/git-how-to-remove-your-password-from-a-repository/">this method</a> of just replacing the string is waaay better</p> 2011-11-27T02:41:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-11/2742/ <p>a <a href="http://whileimautomaton.net/2011/10/26220809">simple guide</a> to undoing operations in git</p> 2011-11-23T21:51:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-03/2628/ <p><a href="https://github.com/drbrain/meme/pull/13">best pull request</a> evar. oh yes</p> 2011-03-23T06:43:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2010-08/2545/ <p>git submodules are like svn externals, but with the added benefit of being <a href="http://cumu.li/2008/10/7/removing-a-git-submodule">almost impossible to remove</a></p> 2010-08-27T18:18:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)