Tag Archives: Git

Git Problems and Solutions

Posted on 2015-03-24 by jcs

Nava Whiteford over at 41j has a useful list of common Git problems and their solutions. It’s almost like a mini-recipe book. For example, what if you made a mistake in your commit message? Whiteford tells you to use the … Continue reading →

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Git Merge and Rebase Explained

Posted on 2014-09-17 by jcs

Git has become the de facto standard version control system. Many people find it confusing or even impossible to understand. In actuality, Git is based on some simple ideas that, once understood, make Git almost transparent. An example of this … Continue reading →

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git-timemachine

Posted on 2014-07-28 by jcs

Recently, I’ve seen several references to the git-timemachine package. It didn’t seem that interesting to me so I ignored it. Then I noticed that Bozhidar Batsov is recommending it on Emacs Redux. When Batsov recommends something, it’s generally an indication … Continue reading →

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Automating Git Bisect

Posted on 2014-07-07 by jcs

I’ve written a couple of times about Git bisect. It’s a way of finding the commit that introduced an error. It works by (essentially) doing a binary search on the commit history. Now, Curtis Poe over at Ovid shows us … Continue reading →

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Git Flow

Posted on 2014-03-17 by jcs

Recently I’ve seen a lot of articles about git-flow but it was sort of hard to understand exactly how to integrate into your work flow. Happily Kevin Basarab has come to the rescue with a video that shows you how … Continue reading →

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Git Stash

Posted on 2014-02-28 by jcs

Over at softwarecave there’s a nice post on using git stash. In git, the stash is basically a stack on which you can push your current changes while you so something else. Maybe you want to change branches without committing … Continue reading →

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Resolving Git Merge Conflicts with Ediff

Posted on 2014-02-17 by jcs

Leonardo Etcheverry has an excellent short post on how to resolve merge conflicts with Magit and ediff. For various reasons, I don’t often encounter merge conflicts so I always struggle with getting them resolved. Etcheverry’s post shows how easy this … Continue reading →

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Git Bisect Tutorial

Posted on 2014-02-14 by jcs

Back in December, I wrote about Randy Fay’s screencast on Git bisect. Now Matt Honeycutt has posted his own tutorial. It’s in the form of a blog post so if Fay’s video moved too quickly for you to follow, you … Continue reading →

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Git Bisect

Posted on 2013-12-23 by jcs

Over at randyfay.com, Randy Fay has a great screencast on debugging with git bisect. If you’re not familiar with git’s bisect command, the idea is to find the git commit that introduced an error. The process is basically a binary … Continue reading →

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Git as a Function Data Structure

Posted on 2013-03-10 by jcs

Philip Nilsson over at Jayway has an illuminating post about git. His idea is that git is best understood as a purely functional immutable data structure (like a CL list). That probably doesn’t seem very promising but he makes a … Continue reading →

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