advanced git features

advanced™ git features and how to survive vim

advanced™ git features and how to survive vim

git makes it

insanely hard too lose

code

every commit is a full snapshot!

No deltas – for fuck sake

A branch is nothing more than a name for a specific

commit

the HEAD is just a pointer to where your working

directory should currently be on

the reflog is a history of all movements of the HEAD

commits in the reflog that are not reachable by any branch will be gc‘ed after

30 days

Noticed you

are on the

wrong branch?

git checkout –b newBranchgit checkout previousBranchgit reset –hard lastValidCommit

git got your back!

git checkout –b newBranchgit checkout previousBranchgit reset –hard HEAD~1

..or relative

„

“

commit early & often

yet nobody want‘s to read this!

git rebase –i 6f50a39~1

this is what people should see

Need the lastfive commits

from branch <foo>without merging any previous commits?

git cherry-pick first~..last

avoid unnecessary merges

use a rebase workflow

because

Face it, here is what happens if you merge blindly

- your history becomes a mess- you hide information in merge commits- harder to do git bisect- harder to do cherry-picking

Face it, here is what happens if you merge blindly

- your history becomes a mess- you hide information in merge commits- harder to do git bisect- harder to do cherry-picking

make the console your friend

//commit ALL THE THINGS for fuck sake!git config --global alias.ca '!git add -A && git commit'

//we don‘t need a gui log! git config --global alias.lg 'log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --graph --decorate'

Useful links!

http://www.randyfay.com/node/91http://stackoverflow.com/questions/457927/git-workflow-and-rebase-vs-merge-questions

Get in touch.

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