Zamansky 42: Git Gutter and Git Time Machine

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his excellent Using Emacs Series. This time he looks at Git Gutter and Git Time Machine. These are a couple of small utilities that make working with Git files and repositories a bit easier.

I’ve used Git Time Machine for a while. It’s one of those things you probably aren’t going to use that often—unless you have a special use case like Zamansky—but when you want to see how a file has changed over time it’s just the thing. You can see how it works in the video.

I haven’t used the other utility, Git Gutter, but it looks interesting. What it does is mark the differences between your current file and what’s in the repository. That makes it easy to see what changes you’ve made. That can be useful, especially when your working on a file for an extended time. You can also stage or revert individual hunks of code right from the utility. Again, Zamansky demonstrates this in the video. After watching the video, I’m going to install Git Gutter and see how it fits with my work flow.

The video is about 8 and a half minutes so it will fit nicely into a coffee break.

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