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Git roundup

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 06:26:00 +0000

This 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.

On a slightly nerdier bent, this explanation of the packfile format is pretty great too.

Closing Some Tabs

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 01:07:00 +0000

I'm closing out some 2014 tabs, so have a few useful links.

Want to make a game, but don't know how to get started? Sortingh.at is a great step-by-step resource.

Using Google Apps-for-business and group mail is bouncing? Follow these instructions to switch to "proper" groups.

Think you can recognize your developers from their commit messages? git-game turns it into a neat game where you try to figure out whose entire message was just "fuck" the most often.

Want a machine that make tortillas at the press of a button? I DO. flatev is the answer.

Git rebase forever

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:30:00 +0000

Every time I get the message "To prevent you from losing history, non-fast-forward updates were rejected" I have forgetten how to fix it (in the normal case). Yet another guide to simple rebasing in git. This shit is way too complicated.

Deploying at GitHub

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:25:00 +0000

I've been meaning to link to this for a while: Deploying at GitHub 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.

Git up

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:29:00 +0000

git-up seems to be the Git tool I had been missing - fetch, stash, rebase, unstash for all branches.

27th November, 2:41 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:41:00 +0000

there are plenty of tips for removing files from a git repo history, but this method of just replacing the string is waaay better

23rd November, 9:51 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:51:00 +0000

a simple guide to undoing operations in git

23rd March, 6:43 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:43:00 +0000

best pull request evar. oh yes

27th August, 6:18 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:18:00 +0000

git submodules are like svn externals, but with the added benefit of being almost impossible to remove