/* Code Comments */5 posts tagged with "git log"
git: when was a file introduced?
2022-11-28
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How can you use Git’s CLI to figure out when a file was initially introduced? When doing so, how do you handle renames? Think of this as…
writing better commit messages
2022-11-28
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In a recent sprint retrospective, a teammate mentioned that we could help ourselves by adding more context to our pull requests. This got me…
git: search commits by date, branch, author
2022-11-28
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Recently, I lost a commit. I couldn’t find it anyway. Fortunately, I knew which day I’d made the commit, so in theory, I would be able to…
git: pretty one line logs
2022-11-28
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Back when I was first learning git, one of the tricks I found was a fantastic alias for information dense git log, which I added to my…
git commit archeology: digging in with grep and pickaxe
2022-11-28
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In his talk “A Branch In Time” (which I wrote about previously, Tekin Süleyman discussed how an engineer can explore the git history to…