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Florent Lebreton

Personal blog · fle.github.ioprogramming

Florent Lebreton's personal blog at fle.github.io covers programming. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2016–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Florent Lebreton's git tips, such as a post on keeping a branch clean with fixup commits and autosquash, cited as an explanation of the workflow.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /git-tip-keep-your-branch-clean-with-fixup-and-autosquash.html
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. I didn't know about this. For those that are looking: http://fle.github.io/git-tip-keep-your-branch-clean-with-fix...

    Comment linking /git-tip-keep-your-branch-clean-with-fixup-and-autosquash.html

    on “More code review tools”
  2. Would git commit --fixup <sha> and git rebase -i --autosquash <previous-sha> do what you need? Random blog link explaining it: [1] [1] https://fle.github.io/git-tip-keep-your-branch-clean-with-fi...

    Comment linking /git-tip-keep-your-branch-clean-with-fixup-and-autosquash.html

    on “jj: a Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful”
  3. I recently started using `git commit --fixup` which I really like. It lets you take the current changes and apply them to a commit which is not the most recent (in a fairly roundabout way). It's good for when I have a stack of diffs and want to make changes to multiple commits at once. (Note this is a pretty advanced technique, if you're not super comfortable with `git rebase -i` I wouldn't bother even trying to und…

    Comment linking /git-tip-keep-your-branch-clean-with-fixup-and-autosquash.html

    on “How to Squash and Rebase in Git”

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