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Philip Potter
Personal blog · philandstuff.comprogrammingsystems
Philip Potter's personal blog at philandstuff.com covers programming and systems. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Git Pickaxe (2014)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Philip Potter's blog for a 2014 post on git pickaxe (-S and -G) for finding commits by changed or matching strings, and a 2013 post on why GPG needs so many bits of key material.
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?
- The Git Pickaxe (2014)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-09
What Hacker News says?
I'd say I literally use pickaxe (-S) and the -G one a few times a week. Often to answer questions I hear around the office. If you are not familiar with it, I think its an amazing. Err... I guess...check it: http://www.philandstuff.com/2014/02/09/git-pickaxe.html Also I do allot of git reset --soft HEAD; (pick-hunks-with-GUI); git stash -u -k; run-test.sh; git commit -m "blah"`
Comment linking /2014/02/09/git-pickaxe.html
on “99% of the Git commands you'll need at work, demonstrated in a single script”Submitted Keep database deploys separate as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you know the specific string (or regex) you’re searching for in the commit messages, combining `-p` with one of the pickaxe [0] options might be a bit faster. 0: http://www.philandstuff.com/2014/02/09/git-pickaxe.html
Comment linking /2014/02/09/git-pickaxe.html
on “Highlights from Git 2.28”Submitted The Git Pickaxe (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI don't feel this belongs on the front page of HN. I was pretty worried when I posted it though. The remaining questions are 1. Is openssl(1) really only intended for "debugging purposes"? 2. http://www.philandstuff.com/2013/03/14/why-does-gpg-need-so-...
Comment linking /2013/03/14/why-does-gpg-need-so-much-entropy.html
on “Openssl: uses only 32 bytes (256 bit) for key generation”