
Understanding Git with Ben Chatelain
In this episode, Leo talks with Ben Chatelain about Git. They chat about branching strategies, merging strategies, Xcode headaches, and... using emojis in your commit messages!😱🥳👏
Guest
- Ben Chatelain (@phatblat)
- Github @phatblat - for great commit message examples!
- 😎Some Cool DJ Sets 😎
Related Episodes
- Episode 29 - Managing iOS Development with Peter Witham
- Episode 46 - Developer Community (Part 2) with Dave Verwer
- Episode 64 - A Very Remote Year with Jacob Gorban
Related Links
- A Brief History of Version Control : Codemash by Brian Meeker
- MS Visual SourceSafe 👴
- CVS 👴
- Level up Your Git Commits with Gitmoji!
- Tower
- Pro Git Book
- Gitflow
- Trunk Based Development
- mas - A simple command line interface for the Mac App Store
- Dangit, Git!?!
- `git log -g` (a better reflog)
- Tip: always delete topic branches after merging a PR (or have GitHub do it for you)
- Ben’s git shortcuts as fish shell functions
- amendne - amend the last commit, reusing the existing commit message
- bundle-pull - transports a dirty working copy from one machine to another.
- git_bundle_create - creates a git bundle by stashing a dirty working copy
- ignore - adds file paths to .gitignore file
- lg, lga - minimal yet pimped out history graph
- new - show new commits received after a pull
- pop - remove the last commit, but keep the changes in the working copy
- publish - push a new branch to a remote
- review - inspect the last commit
- rewrite - uses filter-repo to correct an author email typo (destructive)
- scrub - uses filter-branch to delete files from history (destructive)
- root - prints the path to the root of the local repo
- stash, stsave, stlist, stshow, stpop, stdrop - functions for working with stashes
- suri - submodule update recursive init
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Git Tips and Tricks
- Know the Git Terminal Command
- What Xcode can help with
- How Tower Helps
- Gitflow vs Trunk Based
- What are the different ways to branch
- merge vs squash vs rebase
- Dealing with Git Submodules 😱
- Merging Xcode Projects and Storyboards 🤬
- Creating great commit messages
Git Terminology
- How is a Pull Request useful
- How Branches work in Git
- How to use Tags in Git
- What is a Pull Request draft?
- What is a Git Stash?
- What is Gitmoji?
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Credits
Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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- Edward Sanchez
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Creators and Guests

Host
Leo Dion
Swift developer for Apple devices and more; Founder of BrightDigit; husband and father of 6 adorable kids

Guest
Ben Chatelain
Polyglot software engineer building SDKs for @dittolive. Developing for 🍏iOS, 🍎macOS, 🤖Android, 🏁Windows, 🐧Linux, 🦀Rust, 🥧RPi