There are lots of ways to target a git commit and one way that I often forget to use (but really like it when I remember) is targeting a specific git commit by the commit message.
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Using Vim to View Git Commits
This tweet blew my mind. $ git log | vim -R –Now press <K> on a commit hash. — Luke Diamand (@LukeDiamand) February 21, 2018 I spend a lot of my time in Vim and Git and this is an amazing combination of the two. While I love this command, I think we can do […]
Git Delete Merged Branches from Remote
When I’m working on a project using Git, I’m good about deleting local branches that I don’t need anymore. However, I often forget about my remote branches after they are merged. While it is convenient that most of the Git hosting I use makes it easy to show only unmerged branches, this also makes it […]
Contributing on GitHub
When I first started contributing to projects on GitHub, I had a difficult time with keeping my work and the original project in sync. Eventually, I found a way that works for me. Step 1: Fork the Repository I do this with the GitHub fork button. As an example, if I wanted to contribute to […]
.gitignore for WordPress
Originally when I started using Git with my WordPress projects, I checked in all the files (WordPress core, plugins, themes, and even uploads). Over time I’ve found that to be less than ideal. My preferred .gitignore file appears below and it ignores everything by default. This allows me to whitelist only those plugins and themes […]
How To Use Git Bisect
Historically, when trying to track down a bug in my code I spent a lot of time trying to determine exactly where the bug appears in the code. On all of my projects I use Git for version control. Knowing exactly which commit introduced the bug helps me track down the bug. Git bisect is […]
Improve Git Log
By default the output of ‘git log’ is not nearly as useful as it could be. By creating a new command ‘git lg’ that uses some of the options available to ‘git log’, we create a much more useful command.
WP Engine Syntax Error Composer autoload_static.php
While working with a client recently, I found that deploying to WP Engine with Git had stopped working. The Symptom The following appeared on the command line when I ran git push production remote: – warning: syntax Error Found in wp-content/vendor/composer/autoload_static.php … remote: – failed: we detected a PHP syntax failure. The Problem The file […]
Git Case Sensitive Rename
One can rename a file with git mv however, if you try to use this technique to change the case of the filename it will fail and you’ll get fatal: destination exists. I prefer to keep all my filenames lowercase, so getting this to work is important to me. If I modified the filename case […]
Git file force as binary
Goal Mark generated (concatenated and minified) JavaScript files and CSS files as binary files within Git to allow checking them in while avoiding merge conflicts (currently, I don’t check these files in). Failure I have been unable to get this to work so I thought I’d document my issue here and update this page when […]