Posts tagged: git Archive

📝 Git Notes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:05:21 +0000

Waylon Walker's Git Notes

git name status

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:53:57 +0000

is a great way to see what files have changed in a git diff alongside the status code. I recently used this in a script to create a report of new and...

tea login flag

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:09:36 +0000

The tea command for gitea (used by forgejo) has a flag for login. With gitea you can have multiple accounts logged in. When you try to run a command such as...

💭 You already have a git server: (Maurycy's blog)

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:04:20 +0000

!https://maurycyz.com/misc/easy_git/

💭 Learn to use email with git!

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:23:08 +0000

!https://git-send-email.io/

💭 Repository Mirrors | Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge.

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:50:50 +0000

!https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/repo-mirror/

💭 Let's Make Sure Github Doesn't Become the only Option - Edward...

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:45:53 +0000

!https://blog.edwardloveall.com/lets-make-sure-github-doesnt-become-the-only-option

💭 Git Fork vs Git Clone (Animated) - YouTube

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:59:00 +0000

!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxh6MhK6Tbs

💭 Some Git poll results

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 02:04:41 +0000

!https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/03/28/git-poll-results/

Two new shell aliases for git

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:31:10 +0000

Recently I added two new bash/zsh aliases to make my git experience just a tad better.

gh repo create

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 11:53:32 +0000

I love getting faster in my workflow, something I have recently added in is creating GitHub repos with the cli. I often create little examples of projects,...

git merge ours

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 24 May 2022 12:12:09 +0000

Sometimes you have a pretty old branch you are trying to merge into and you are absolutely sure what you have is what you want, and therefore you don't want...

List all git commits with GitPython

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 09 May 2022 21:24:12 +0000

I am getting ready to do some timeseries analysis on a git repo with python, my first step is to figure out a way to list all of the git commits so that I...

GPG signing commits over ssh

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 08 May 2022 15:09:59 +0000

I was editing some blog posts over ssh, when I ran into this error. gpg was failing to sign my commits. I realized that this was because I could not answer...

Review Pull Requests with git worktrees

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 04 May 2022 14:31:05 +0000

Sometimes you get a PR on a project, but cannot review it without wrecking your current working setup. This might be because it needs to be compiled, or a...

Using Git from Python

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 20:23:23 +0000

is a python api for your git repos, it can be quite handy when you need to work with git from python.

Set Your Git Pager Config

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:03:18 +0000

Setting up your git pager to your liking can help you navigate diffs and logs much more efficiently. You can set it to whatever pager you like so that your...

Configure Git to Autocorrect Your Fat Fingers

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:43:25 +0000

If you have ever mistyped a git command very close to an existing one you have likely seen this message.

Git Worktrees are not so Scary

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:19:34 +0000

So worktrees, I always thought they were a big scary things. Turns out they are much simpler than I thought.

Configure Git to Always Push to the Current Branch

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 13:45:18 +0000

Has no upstream branch errors in git can be such a damn productivity killer. You gotta stop your flow and swap over the branch, there is a config so that you...

Recover a lost git branch with checkout

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 14:34:01 +0000

Once you give a branch the big D () its gone, its lost from your history. It's completely removed from your log. There will be no reference to these commits,...

git find deleted files

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:45:19 +0000

It's nearly impossible to completely loose a file if it is commited to git. It's likely harder to fully remove the file than it is to recover it, but how do...

git diff-filter

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 16:34:31 +0000

Git commands such as , , all take a flag called . This can filter for only certain types of diffs, such as added (A), modified (M), or deleted (D).

Git rebase to the beginning of time

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:57:37 +0000

Git has a built in way to rebase all the way back to the beginning of time. There is no need to scroll through the log to find the first hash, or find the...

Revive files from the dead with git

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:44:02 +0000

Git reflog can perform some serious magic in reviving your hard work from the dead if you happen to loose it.

Git reflog is an alias for git log -g

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 15:02:52 +0000

Right inside the git docs, is states that the command runs by default which is an alias for

A Good Use for global .gitignore

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 02:11:51 +0000

I've never found a great use for a global file. Mostly I fear that by adding a lot of the common things like files it will be missing from the project and...

fugitive verbose commit

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 19:34:18 +0000

Fugitive comes with a pretty sick way to commit files and see the diff at the same time with verbose commit. Opening the fugitive menu with brings up your...

Code Review from the comfort of vim | Diffurcate

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 11:34:47 +0000

I often review Pull requests from the browser as it just makes it so easy to see the diffs and navigate through them, but there comes a time when the diffs...

Git in Depth Notes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 08:44:44 +0000

These are my notes from taking @nnja's FEM course git-in-depth.

How I configure git

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 20:50:45 +0000

Git can be a bit tricky to get configured correctly. I often stumble into config issues weeks after setting up a new machine that I did not even notice....

How to use git cherry pick

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 13 May 2021 08:51:45 +0000

~/git via 🐍 v3.8.5 ❯ mkdir git-cherry-pick-learn ~/git via 🐍 v3.8.5 ❯ cd git-cherry-pick-learn ~/git/git-cherry-pick-learn ❯ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/walkews/git/git-cherry-pick-learn/.git/ git-cherry-pick-learn on  main ❯ touch readme.md git-cherry-pick-learn on  main [?] ❯ git status On branch main No commits yet Untracked files: (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) readme.md nothing added to commit but...

Trim unused git branches

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 07 May 2021 09:47:24 +0000

Trim branches no longer on origin # git remote prune origin --dry-run git remote prune origin Find branches already merged # git checkout main # list remote branches that have already been merged into main git branch -r --merged # list local branches that have already been merged into main git branch --merged

Gitui is a blazing fast terminal git interface

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Gitui is a terminal-based git user interface (TUI) that will change the way that you work with git.

Gitui is a blazing fast terminal git interface

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Gitui is a terminal-based git user interface (TUI) that will change the way that you work with git. I have been a long-time user of the git cli, and it's...

Fix git commit author

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 05:00:00 +0000

I was 20 commits into a hackoberfest PR when I suddenly realized they they all had my work email on them instead of my personal email 😱.

List the latest files to change in a git repo

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 05:00:00 +0000

while read file; do echo $(git log --pretty=format:%ad -n 1 --date=raw -- $file) $file; done < <(git ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD | grep static/stories) | sort -r | head -n 3 | cut -d " " -f 3

Strip Trailing Whitespace from Git projects

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0000

A common linting error thrown by various linters is for trailing whitespace. I most often use flake8. I generally have pre-commit hooks setup to strip this,...

Rename your Master Branch

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 02:12:24 +0000

Rename your Master Branch git branch -m master main git push -u origin main

Master No More

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 05:00:00 +0000

It's been a long time coming. We use some very harsh language within tech so much sometimes that we become numb to it. It's time to do my very small part in...

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hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 01:58:03 +0000

compare _ branch to _ with ** cli

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hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 18:14:14 +0000

Setup ** for _

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hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 18:12:10 +0000

** setup is _

Maintianing multiple git remotes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 07 May 2020 11:56:00 +0000

git remote -v git remote add gitlab <url> git push gitlab main

Today I learned `git diff feature..main`

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 11:58:00 +0000

Sometimes we get a little happy and mistakenly commit something that we just cant figure out. This is a good way to figure out what the heck has changed on the current branch compared to any other branch.

git push without setting upstream

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:18:00 +0000

Finally after years of hand typing out a full I found there is a setting to automatcally push to the current branch. More realisitically I just did a let git...

Realistic Git Workflow

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 27 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

My git workflow based on real life. Its not always clean and simple.

Rewrite History with Git

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

git commit --amend

Update Git User

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This morning I log into my VCS and check activity on my projects to find that ** has been _ active on my projects fo the last few weeks. I quicklyhover over...

remove git cruft

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

My original inspiration for this post came from steven ostermiller's blog post that no longer exists from my last check in May, 2024.