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Git and Historical Revision

Git and Historical Revision

A well crafted history is a trade off. It's similar to writing tests. Most of the time tests do nothing, but when they raise an alarm it is super handy. With practice, the cost is minimal.

The Purpose of Version Control

The Purpose of Version Control

I think it's rare to see a project not automatically added to Github shortly after, if not before, inception. It's just a checkbox of writing code. Previously it was something to think about.Github [https://github.com] (and Bitbucket [http://bitbucket.org], Gitlab [https://gitlab.com/

Legible Git History

Legible Git History

Everything you produce gets consumed. If you make it easier to consume, it will cause less friction for others as well as yourself.

Using git to borrow from the future

Using git to borrow from the future

One of the great features of git is the ability to re-order commits, break commits into parts, and merge commits together. Assuming that my master branch is a pristine copy of the site and an ancestor of mybranch we can re-order commits by running: git rebase -i master This will