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Git Weekly #34
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·Mar 27
Git Merge vs Rebase vs Squash
On Squash Merge and When to Use It —  Git Weekly #34
Level: Intermediate 🥈 When it comes to version control systems, merging is an essential process. It allows developers to combine code changes made in different branches, ensuring that everyone is working with the latest and most up-to-date version of the codebase. There are various methods of merging…
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #33
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·Mar 13
Close Issue with Commit
on GitHub and GitLab —  Git Weekly #33
Level: Beginner 🎄 It’s generally a good practice to mention the issue you’re fixing in the commit that fixes it. …
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #32
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·Feb 26
Docker Image Scan GitHub Action
And How to Set It Up —  Git Weekly #32
Level: Beginner 🎄 Nowadays, the final product of most of the git repositories is a Docker image, that is then used in a Kubernetes deployment. …
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #31
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·Feb 14
Best Coding Practices for Git
How to Not Mess Up Git Blame —  Git Weekly #31
Level: Beginner 🎄 Git blame is a powerful tool in git that allows you to track the changes made to a file and attribute them to a specific contributor. This tool is particularly useful when you need to understand the history of a particular line of code…
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #30
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·Jan 29
Git Commands to Use Instead of Checkout
Introducing Git Switch and Restore —  Git Weekly #30
Level: Beginner 🎄 A year ago, I would switch between branches with the following command: git checkout master And by doing a git status, the output would look like this: On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git…
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #29
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·Jan 25
7 Tips to Work with Branches on Git
Git Weekly #29
Level: Beginner 🎄 We covered 6 branching basics in the Christmas post “6 Git Tips for Christmas”. In this post, we will discuss 7 more advanced ones. 1. List All Branches Running the git branch command without any further arguments, lists all of the local branches, marking the branch you’re at…
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #28
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·Jan 16
Create a Patch with Git
How to Create Git Patches and Apply Them —  Git Weekly #28
Level: Beginner 🥉 Git allows one to transfer changes in many different ways. …
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #27
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·Jan 9
Git 2.38 Is Out
On Branch Chains —  Git Weekly #27
Level: Advanced 🥇 A few days back, a friend asked me how to deal with a feature branch that has become too large and now contains work related to multiple features. The answer was to create a branch chain, i.e. branches created on top of each other. …
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #26
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·Dec 12, 2022
Undo Git Rebase
Introduction to Git Reflog —  Git Weekly #26
Level: Advanced 🥇 Undoing regular git actions is fairly easy. We can always look into the git history using git log and go back in time to a certain point. An example is undoing the last commit: $ git log --oneline
3f4176f (HEAD -> my-branch, master) :gear: Add…
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #25
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·Dec 5, 2022
Continuous Integration
The Idea of It and How to Use It —  Git Weekly #25
Level: Beginner 🥉 Continuous integration is a software development practice where developers regularly merge their code changes into a central repository, allowing them to detect and fix errors quickly. …
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #24
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·Nov 28, 2022
Git Diff Between Branches
A Tribute to Alan Turing —  Git Weekly #24
Level: Beginner 🥉 Git is a free and open-source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. When you have multiple branches in your Git repository, you may want to know what the differences are between them…
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #23
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·Nov 21, 2022
6 Git Tips for Christmas
Git Weekly #23
Level: Beginner 🎄 I am using git since 2015. In a few days, 2023 will begin and mark my 8th year of using git. In these 8 years, many things have changed about git, and many new practices were introduced. In this short piece, I will enumerate…
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #22
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·Nov 14, 2022
Git: Fixup Your Commit
Git Weekly #22
Level: Intermediate 🥈 Quite often, I make a pull request with a few commits and then someone leaves a comment like: “There was a typo in your first commit”. …
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #21
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·Nov 7, 2022
Of the Huge Pull Requests
And How to Divide Them —  Git Weekly #21
Level: Intermediate 🥈 Ask an engineer to review a pull request with 20 lines of code change, they will find 10 issues in it. Ask them to review 500 lines of change, and they will say LGTM — looks good to me. I’m not a big fan…
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #20
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·Oct 6, 2022
5 Git(Ops) Practices at Jodel
Git is probably the most popular tool among developers. 93% of the Stack Overflow survey attendants stated that they use git. No other tool has that high share of usage among the community. But this tool is so flexible and deep, that almost everyone uses it differently. In this piece…
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #19
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·Sep 16, 2022
Sign Git Commits
On Linux or Mac, with GitHub —  Git Weekly #19
Level: Advanced 🥇 Git is a very flexible tool. It allows one to commit using any name they want. So, for example, one can commit a broken code and blame it on someone else. Main article: Git: Change Author So, how would one be sure if the…
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #18
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·Aug 20, 2022
Seven Git Configs
To Set When Moving to a New Machine —  I started working at my new employer, Jodel, exactly one month ago. 🎉 With the new employer comes a new laptop and new git installation. In the past month, I was trying to find the git configs I always set from my old blog posts. …
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #17
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·Aug 3, 2022
Git Merge Tools
How to resolve conflicts using Git? —  Quite often, a line is changed by two parties differently, and one of the versions is merged. The other party should get the changes and resolve the conflict. How do you usually resolve conflicts? Conflicts So, what does a conflict look like? Let’s take a look at an example: <<<<<<< HEAD
name…
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #16
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·Jul 27, 2022
Git Binary Search
How to find a bad commit? —  It sometimes happens that we test the code after more than a few commits and then realize there is something wrong with the state of the code. …
Git
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Git
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Git Weekly #15
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·Jul 13, 2022
Git Partial Staging
How to Stage a File Partially —  It happens quite often to me that I have changed multiple places in a file but want to commit one of them only. An example would be package.json file in a Node.js project, which contains different parts: the project info and version, the predefined commands, the dependencies, and even the…
Git
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Git
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