Reviving Git Better

Srebalaji Thirumalai

Mar 21, 2023

Hey there! I’m Srebalaji. You are receiving this email because you have subscribed to level up your game in Git.

I know it’s been a very long time since I have written in this newsletter.

Starting this week, I will continue to write in this newsletter and help you get better at Git.

Here’s the list of top articles from the past

How to work in multiple git branches simultaneously

Hey there! I’m Srebalaji. You are receiving this email because you have subscribed to level up your game in Git. If you are working on a project for a while, you know you will switch between multiple branches for various reasons. For example, you might want to switch to another branch to hotfix a prod bug. Or there may be some long-running tests you may w…

4 years ago · 4 likes · Srebalaji Thirumalai

How to use git restore effectively

Hey there! I’m Srebalaji. You are receiving this email because you have subscribed to level up your game in Git. git restore is used to restore or discard the uncommitted local changes of files. Assume that you have done some changes in some files and then if you want to discard those local changes you can safely use…

4 years ago · Srebalaji Thirumalai

How to change git default branch from master

Hey there! I’m Srebalaji. You are receiving this email because you have subscribed to level up your game in Git. Recently, there are many suggestions about renaming the default branch master to some other name. This was mainly due to the master-slave metaphor that some people are talking about…

4 years ago · 4 comments · Srebalaji Thirumalai

How to clean up the git repo and reduce its disk size

Hi there! I’m Srebalaji. You are receiving this email because you have subscribed to level up your game in Git. If you are working in a Git repo for a very long time then you can cleanup your repo to gain disk space. Git has an internal garbage collection tool that takes care of most of the things but there are few things that we can also do to clean up t…

4 years ago · 7 likes · Srebalaji Thirumalai

How to squash git commits

Before learning how to squash commits let’s see what is git squash first. Git squash is a technique that helps you to take a series of commits and condense it to a few commits. For example, assume that you have a series of n commits. By squashing you can make all the n-commits to a single commit…

5 years ago · 5 likes · Srebalaji Thirumalai

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