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1 --- 2 title: "Useful and interesting Git posts" 3 date: 2024-02-11T20:00:20-08:00 4 draft: false 5 categories: 6 - Programing 7 tags: 8 - Git 9 --- 10 11 This is just a collection of interesting (and not necessarily recent) Git 12 posts from around the web. I may update this as I find new things. 13 14 ## Introductions 15 16 [Mikkel Paulson --- Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo 17 developer](https://mikkel.ca/blog/git-is-my-buddy-effective-solo-developer/) 18 19 I love reading about how other people use Git, and like Mikkel I am usually 20 using it as a “solo developer”. It’s interesting how different his approach 21 is from my own. I think that’s partly due to us being in different lines of 22 work (I haven’t been paid to put anything on the web since the 1990s), but 23 it also suggests that I could be doing things better. 24 25 [Sandra Snan --- The life-changing magic of 26 git](https://idiomdrottning.org/git) 27 28 A nice introduction to Git. I really appreciate how it defines the most 29 common pieces of Git jargon. 30 31 [Nick Farina --- Git is simpler than you 32 think](https://nfarina.com/post/9868516270/git-is-simpler) 33 34 This is an older post, written at a time when many programmers were still 35 using Subversion, and it’s worth checking out for the vintage screenshots 36 alone. But it also serves as a great introduction to what Git is doing 37 under the hood. 38 39 [Julia Evans --- Inside .git](https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/01/26/inside-git/) 40 41 This comic (with accompanying text) goes even deeper into what Git is 42 actually doing. A “Git repository” is just regular directory full of source 43 code (or whatever) called the “working copy”, plus a .git directory 44 containing a collection of special files. This breaks down all those files. 45 46 ## Opinions 47 48 [Dan Kelch --- Nobody cares about your Git 49 history](https://spin.atomicobject.com/git-history/) 50 51 You can ignore the provocative title (or appreciate it), but really this is 52 good guidance on how to think about rebasing vs. merging. 53 54 [Alex Kladov --- Git 55 things](https://matklad.github.io/2023/12/31/git-things.html) 56 57 “A grab bag of less frequently talked about git adjacent points.” The stuff 58 about CI and code review is always fascinating to me---a “solo 59 developer”---a window into a whole other world of writing code for a living. 60 The tips for working on merge commits are great, and I’ve adopted Alex’s 61 advice on moving files and starting with empty commits.