Gitting Things Done

Presented on September 16 2022 at WordCamp Netherlands, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
https://netherlands.wordcamp.org/2022/session/gitting-things-done/
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Git is the modern-day version management system of choice.
We all know how to commit, push, pull and merge. But what about (interactive) rebasing, fixing up commits, cherry picking lines and bisecting the history ?
And what are those atomic commits you keep hearing people talk about and why would they be of any use to you ?

Come and learn how to get the most out of the tooling you already use every day, find ways to make life easier on the people who review your code and leave knowing how to create a clean commit history which is a joy to peruse.
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Transcript

1. Gitting Things Done Juliette Reinders Folmer Tweet about it: @jrf_nl #WCNL22
2. What is Git ? Linnaea Mallette
3. About Forks & Remotes
4. “ There is no one truth kconnors
5. Original Repo Fork A Fork B
6. Original Repo Fork A Fork B
7. Original Repo Fork A Fork B
8. Original Repo Fork A Fork B
9. “ There is no limit to the amount of remotes you can add or that can exist
10. Pull I accept your truth as my truth
11. Push My truth is now your truth
12. Pull Request Will you accept my truth as your truth ?
13. Merging a PR Thanks for asking. I accept your truth as my truth
14. About Branches Paul de Bruin
15. Branches are your Save Points
16. COPY/DEL TEMP PR WAIT-FOR WIP TODO Use Branches Liberally
17. How to Write History and Get Your PRs Accepted
18. Useful ?
19. Decypherable ?
20. Clean
21. “ A clean history requires forethought and discipline kconnors
22. Atomic Commits Pass CI Easy to Review Focus on One Thing Self-contained
23. Atomic Commits === Story Telling
24. Tools of The Trade ▪ Amend Steve Buissinne
25. Tools of The Trade ▪ Amend ▪ Interactive Rebase Maria Yan
26. Rebase
27. Rebase
28. Interactive Rebase
29. Interactive Rebase
30. squash pick fixup drop edit reword Interactive Rebase
35. Squash vs Fixup ▪ Combines changes into one commit ▪ Combines the commit messages + presents for edit ▪ Combines changes into one commit ▪ Throws away all but the original commit message
36. About Commit Messages ▪ Short description (title) ▪ Long description: Describe the why's ▪ Reference links ▪ Use proper punctuation! Voiculescu Bogdan
37. Give Credit Where Credit is Due Prefix: description Long description explaining why the changes were made, why they were made in this way. What other solutions were considered and rejected and for what reason. Reference(s): • https://.... Co-authored-by: Contributor Name <email@address.net>
38. Tools of The Trade ▪ Amend ▪ Interactive Rebase ▪ Cherry picking Enrica Bressan
39. Cherry Picking Commits Files Lines
40. Cherry Picking When committing From other commits From other branches
41. K.C. Hohensee
42. To Force Push Or Not To Force Push DO: ▪ Non- collaborative branch, not pulled ▪ Pulled, rebased, no changes MAYBE ▪ Pulled, typo/CS fix DON'T: ▪ Collaborative branch, not pulled ▪ Pulled, review has started
43. When Things Go Wrong
44. Reset vs Revert
45. Reset vs Revert
46. Reset vs Revert
47. Reset vs Revert
48. Git in Comfort Git Kraken SmartGit Aurees SourceTree GitExtensions CLI GitEye Git Cola
49. Thanks! Any questions ? Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/jrf Feedback: https://joind.in/talk/dafa1 @jrf_nl @jrfnl