Custom formatting with git log

I've chatted about Git before, but today I wanted to dive on some learning that I did recently on git log specifically. I wanted to streamline how I populate my pull request descriptions. Typically with my git commits, I like to keep to a atomic commit philosophy. My commits tell the why of my code change. The what of my…

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A Month of Learning

My month(ish) of learning So one of my goals has to been to dive deeper into Ruby and Rails, but as well as to try to learn a new thing, maybe technical, maybe not, every work day. And then to write that thing down. This was to help with accountability, you know actually doing it, as well as to help…

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Code Documentation – before, after, and during coding

Sometimes you just need to started on some design for work on a larger ticket or new feature, you want to get your thoughts down and maybe start plotting out a code flow or some potential classes but what app do you reach for? So much of the time I reach for Google Docs, for my personal or professional work.…

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Git workflow and my new love of Git alias

For good or bad, my current Git workflow does not include merges, but rebasing. It keeps the history cleaner, works with the established workflow (pretty standard GitHub flow) just no merge commits.  I was trying to find a nice graph of the master branch, but coming from a GitLab background it isn't hard to find this information in the GitLab…

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Finding out how little you know about Git

I haven't been a Git user for a long time, I have just been actively using it since January. That may not sound like a long time, but for a developer using a tool for over 5 months is almost as much as some projects take (if you are lucky) or as long as a contract is.  Since switching from…

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