Guest

• Ben Chatelain (@phatblat)
  • Github @phatblat - for great commit message examples!
  • 😎Some Cool DJ Sets 😎

YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/C0Ymu7vx_ko

Related Episodes

• Episode 29 - Managing iOS Development with Peter Witham
• Episode 46 - Developer Community (Part 2) with Dave Verwer
• Episode 64 - A Very Remote Year with Jacob Gorban

Related Links

• A Brief History of Version Control : Codemash by Brian Meeker
• MS Visual SourceSafe 👴
• CVS 👴
• Level up Your Git Commits with Gitmoji!
• Tower
• Pro Git Book
• Gitflow
• Trunk Based Development
• mas - A simple command line interface for the Mac App Store
• Dangit, Git!?!
• git log -g (a better reflog)
• Tip: always delete topic branches after merging a PR (or have GitHub do it for you)
• Ben’s git shortcuts as fish shell functions
  • amendne - amend the last commit, reusing the existing commit message
  • bundle-pull - transports a dirty working copy from one machine to another.
  • git_bundle_create - creates a git bundle by stashing a dirty working copy
  • ignore - adds file paths to .gitignore file
  • lg, lga - minimal yet pimped out history graph
  • new - show new commits received after a pull
  • pop - remove the last commit, but keep the changes in the working copy
  • publish - push a new branch to a remote
  • review - inspect the last commit
  • rewrite - uses filter-repo to correct an author email typo (destructive)
  • scrub - uses filter-branch to delete files from history (destructive)
  • root - prints the path to the root of the local repo
  • stash, stsave, stlist, stshow, stpop, stdrop - functions for working with stashes
  • suri - submodule update recursive init

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Git Tips and Tricks

• Know the Git Terminal Command
• What Xcode can help with
• How Tower Helps
• Gitflow vs Trunk Based
• What are the different ways to branch
• merge vs squash vs rebase
• Dealing with Git Submodules 😱
• Merging Xcode Projects and Storyboards 🤬
• Creating great commit messages

Git Terminology

• How is a Pull Request useful
• How Branches work in Git
• How to use Tags in Git
• What is a Pull Request draft?
• What is a Git Stash?
• What is Gitmoji?

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