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Justin Hileman
Personal blog · justinhileman.info/articleprogrammingdesign
Justin Hileman writes :), a personal blog at justinhileman.info about programming and design. Since 2008, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Git pretty”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Justin Hileman's git-pretty flowchart for recovering from Git mistakes. Commenters value it as concise and useful for undoing messes, and one calls it funny.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Git pretty12 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2014-03-26
- A path to scape a Git Mess2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-14
What Hacker News says?
I've always found this flowchart[1] wonderful and concise for handling this problem (that is, how do I fix the problem I've made for myself with git).. 1: http://justinhileman.info/article/git-pretty/
Comment linking /article/git-pretty/
on “Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations”Submitted Git pretty as a story · 314 points
HN discussionAlso great for getting out of Git messes: http://justinhileman.info/article/git-pretty/
Comment linking /article/git-pretty/
on “Some bad Git situations and how I got myself out of them”Submitted The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end? as a story · 160 points
HN discussionThey A/B tested this as an experiment at least once. I recall there was another try too, but couldn't find info about it. http://justinhileman.info/article/googles-edit-search-result...
Comment linking /article/googles-edit-search-results-experiment/
on “The internet is an SEO landfill”Submitted Google's "Edit Search results" experiment as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI've used the following flow chart to help determine strategies to get myself out of messes: http://justinhileman.info/article/git-pretty/ Just another way of presenting similar information. No affiliation, just a satisfied consumer of the info :)
Comment linking /article/git-pretty/
on “How to undo almost anything with Git”Submitted Git pretty as a story · 9 points
HN discussionFor example, with Mercurial, there's at least four different ways to do a rebase-ish thing: transplant, graft, rebase, and rebase (w/ evolve enabled). It's not obvious which a newbie should pick (rebase+evolve... I think?). You're cherrypicking--no pun intended. By default, Mercurial doesn't do any of these operations; you have to activate extensions. If I were a newbie coming from Git and I wanted a similar workflo…
Comment linking /article/git-pretty/
on “How to undo almost anything with Git (2015)”Submitted Git pretty as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis flowchart[1] has been useful to me a few times when I've been lost on how to fix something. I usually keep it as a bookmark, but I don't have it saved on this computer, so I just did a google image search and was able to fine it fairly quickly. A google image search for "git solution workflow" or "git fix flowchart" finds it right away, in case this tickles your brain in the future and you want to find it again…
Comment linking /article/git-pretty/
on “How to undo almost anything with Git (2015)”Submitted Git Pretty as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've tried the GitX integration to no avail http://justinhileman.info/git-for-coda/ I'm sure they're already working hard on Coda 2. I wonder if this might have been an experiment to see if Transit code could be ported to iOS
Comment linking /git-for-coda/
on “Introducing Prompt. Nice SSH for iOS.”Submitted Git pretty as a story · 3 points
HN discussionthis one is pretty funny: http://justinhileman.info/article/git-pretty/git-pretty.png
Comment linking /article/git-pretty/git-pretty.png
on “Interactive Git Cheatsheet”Submitted How to Git pretty as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOn a similar note is this flowchart which walks you through recovering from various Git mistakes: http://justinhileman.info/article/git-pretty/
Comment linking /article/git-pretty/
on “On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git”Submitted A path to scape a Git Mess as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git pretty as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git pretty as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tip: show "invisible characters" only when you highlight text as a story · 1 points
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