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Seth Robertson
Personal blog · sethrobertson.github.ioprogramming
Seth Robertson's personal blog at sethrobertson.github.io covers programming. Since 2013, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git15 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2013-12-15
- On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2014-05-26
- Commit often, perfect later, publish once: Git best practices (2013)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-08-02
- Sausage Making with Git2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-12
What Hacker News says?
In choose your own adventure style: http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
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on “Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations”Submitted Commit often, perfect later, publish once: Git best practices (2013) as a story · 261 points
HN discussionAlso useful for panicky moments, with handy workflow: http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html I visit this page every few weeks. :)
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on “Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations”Submitted On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git as a story · 157 points
HN discussionReference to a helpful wizard for fixing your git mistake: http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
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on “Git undo: We can do better”Submitted Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices as a story · 117 points
HN discussionPerhaps it was this one? https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
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on “Oh Shit, Git?”Submitted On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git as a story · 105 points
HN discussionI prefer this, because it has a flow-chart http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
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on “Oh shit, git (2016)”Submitted On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git as a story · 78 points
HN discussionI use this one. Also the same information, but its in paragraph form like the OP, but with hyperlinked questions to jump around like you would in a flow chart. http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
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on “How to undo almost anything with Git”Submitted Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSee also http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html which has helped me immensely in the past.
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on “How to undo almost anything with Git”Submitted On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI have used this resource, until common stuff has burned into brain "choose your own git adventure": https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
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on “Oh Shit, Git”Submitted Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot reading. Nothing is ever as good as this flow chart: http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
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on “How to undo almost anything with Git (2015)”Submitted Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOk so let me post an opinion from the other side. I think that histories that represent actual history in git are actually not useful at all. Let's look at an example. I make a commit that introduces a bug and contains a typo. Someone else points out the bug, so I fix the bug. Then someone else points out the typo so I fix the typo, one small commit for each fix. While this is indeed an accurate depiction of history…
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on “Why is git pull considered harmful? (2013)”Submitted On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in Git as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOn undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git (Interactive help): http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
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on “Flight rules for Git – What to do when things go wrong”Submitted On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in Git: A Git choose-your-own-adventure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI occasionally wish git had an undo-whatever-I-just-did command, and I've been using it for years. The git fixup page comes in quite handy. https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
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on “Gitjk – command to undo what you just did in git”Submitted On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI disagree with the usage of githooks for linting and testing. It discourages frequenting committing which is a tenet of using git. Commit often, perfect later, publish once ( https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitBestPractices/ ). Your pipeline should be responsible for ensuring things don't make it into the master branch that shouldn't. Run tests and linting on a pull request and make it a requirement for those to pa…
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on “How to set up a perfect Python project”Submitted A Git choose-your-own-adventure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've been waiting for someone to build this. My hope is it will simplify recovering from the myriad forms of "I just did something I didn't want" that occasionally happen with git (and that I've historically used [0] to resolve) [0] https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
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on “Show HN: Natural Language Git (Gitgpt)”Submitted GitFixUm – A Git choose-your-own-adventure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitFixUm – A Git choose-your-own-adventure for when you've messed up as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Undoing/Fixing bad git commits, “choose-your-adventure” style as a story · 2 points
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