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Opening all the files that have been modified in a Git branch

You can use Git to find where a branch diverged from main, what files have changed, then open those files in your editor.

A Python function to ignore a path with .git/info/exclude

If your Python script creates a file that you don’t want to track in Git, here’s how you can ignore it.

TIL: Use git check-ignore to debug your .gitignore

Running git check-ignore --verbose <PATH> will tell you which rule applies to a given path, and where that rule is defined.

TIL: Add a Git co-author credit with “Co-authored-by” in your commit message

TIL: Pushing with --force-with-lease is safer than with --force

It checks the remote state of the origin hasn’t changed since you last fetched, so you don’t risk overwriting anybody else’s commits.

TIL: List all Git object IDs and their type

Notes on A Plumber’s Guide to Git

Git is a fundamental part of many modern developer workflows – but how does it really work under the hood? In this workshop, we’ll learn about the internals of Git.

Pruning old Git branches

Two commands for managing Git branches: one for deleting branches which have already been merged, one for deleting branches which were deleted on a remote.

A plumber’s guide to Git

How does Git work under the hood? How does it store information, and what’s really behind a branch?

Some useful Git commands for CI

A couple of Git commands that I find useful in builds and CI.

Useful Git features: a per-clone exclude file (.git/info/exclude)

Another way to ignore untracked files in Git.