git

The default diffing algorithm for git diff is by lines. There are scenarios where it’s more interesting to diff by word, for example: long lines. In that case it’s useful to use --word-diff=color. ...

The GitHub CLI (gh binary), defaults to nano as its editor. Developers may want to set it to vim or VSCode to keep it in line with the git CLI’s behaviour. ...

When working with git a selection of GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket and rebase-trigger-happy colleagues/collaborators, it’s a rite of passage to see a message like the following: Pushing to [email protected]:some-project/some-repo.git To [email protected]:some-project/some-repo.git ! [rejec ...

Here’s how I get productive for JavaScript/Node on Mac OS. It includes iTerm2, zsh, Node, Visual Studio Code and some git commands. ...

Enhancing generators for ES6 in the Sequelize CLI This is the story of my discovery of ES6-class style model definitions with Sequelize (see Using ES6 classes for Sequelize 4 models). The realisation that the current Sequelize CLI model generator didn’t support it (as is ...

One of the greatest and worst things with git is that you can rewrite the history. Here’s a sneaky way of abusing that, I can’t think of a legitimate reason to do this. As with anything, thanks StackOverflow for all the options I can pick from 👍. ...

Easily deploying to multiple environments in a simple manner using GitHub, CircleCI and Heroku. Continuous Integration is awesome, but sometimes you need a buffer between auto-deploying things on merge and the production release. To do that with CircleCI requires some git branch- ...

One of git's main differences when compared to other version control systems is that it lets the user rewrite the history. The main way to do this is to use git rebase, usually followed by a git push --``force to overwrite history the remote with the local history. Here’s a look ...

The tools we wield define us, git is the one tool all developers use ...