Some Miscellaneous Git Facts(jvns.ca)

23 points by qsantos 3 years ago | 1 comments

Confusing Git Terminology(jvns.ca)

491 points by soheilpro 3 years ago | 257 comments

Julia Evans blog post explaining confusing git terms like HEAD, detached HEAD, fast-forward, and staging area, based on answers from Mastodon.

Do we think of Git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?(jvns.ca)

168 points by soheilpro 2 years ago | 167 comments

Git rebase, what can go wrong(jvns.ca)

191 points by kens 3 years ago | 247 comments

Git Branches: Intuition and Reality(jvns.ca)

347 points by tambourine_man 2 years ago | 215 comments

Julia Evans blog post comparing an intuitive mental model of git branches with how git actually represents branches internally.

Terminal colours are tricky(jvns.ca)

282 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 116 comments

How Core Git Developers Configure Git(blog.gitbutler.com)

418 points by lnkl 1 year ago | 90 comments

GitButler blog post by Scott Chacon describing git config settings that core Git developers change and that arguably should be defaults.

How I configure my Git identities(benji.dog)

362 points by 8organicbits 1 year ago | 72 comments

A personal blog post explaining how the author uses Git's includeIf directive to manage separate Git identities and signing keys per directory.

Git commands I run before reading any code(piechowski.io)

2140 points by grepsedawk 6 months ago | 459 comments

Blog post by Ally Piechowski describing five git commands to find churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns before reading a codebase.

You already have a Git server(maurycyz.com)

596 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 393 comments

Blog post explaining that any server with SSH access can host git repositories, showing how to clone over SSH and allow pushes to the checked-out branch.

Beej's Guide to Git(beej.us)

894 points by mixto 1 year ago | 280 comments

Landing page for Beej's Guide to Git, a free online guide to the Git version control system offered in HTML and other downloadable formats.

The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)(michaelheap.com)

151 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 88 comments

A 2022 blog post by Michael Heap arguing that using the GitHub wiki for project documentation is an anti-pattern compared to a docs folder in the repo.