Understanding Git with Ben Chatelain - a podcast by Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit

Guest

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  Ben Chatelain (@phatblat)
  
  
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    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

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  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


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  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
  
  
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    amendne - amend the last commit, reusing the existing commit message
  
  
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    bundle-pull - transports a dirty working copy from one machine to another. 
  
  
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    git_bundle_create - creates a git bundle by stashing a dirty working copy
  
  
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    ignore - adds file paths to .gitignore file
  
  
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    lg, lga - minimal yet pimped out history graph
  
  
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    new - show new commits received after a pull
  
  
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    pop - remove the last commit, but keep the changes in the working copy
  
  
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    publish - push a new branch to a remote
  
  
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    review - inspect the last commit
  
  
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    rewrite - uses filter-repo to correct an author email typo (destructive)
  
  
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    scrub - uses filter-branch to delete files from history (destructive)
  
  
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    root - prints the path to the root of the local repo
  
  
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    stash, stsave, stlist, stshow, stpop, stdrop - functions for working with stashes
  
  
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    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?

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

LinkedIn
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Leo

Instagram - @brightdigit
Patreon - empowerappshow

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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