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Git stories (self.git)

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This is a collection of posts that probe the way Git impacts our thinking and ways of working. These are exclusively discussions held within the community (and not links to blogs). Feel free to roam and join the discussion.

Creating a Git commit: The Hard Way (avestura.dev)

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Git bisect run techniques (paperless.blog)

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Git: avoid reset --hard, use reset --keep instead (adamj.eu)

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via https://fosstodon.org/@adamchainz/113069875974994637

Git Rev News Edition 114 (August 31st, 2024) (git.github.io)

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PSA: Git exposes timezone metadata (sh.itjust.works)

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Git records the local timezone when a commit is made [1]. Knowledge of the timezone in which a commit was made could be used as a bit of identifying information to de-anonymize the committer.

Setting one's timezone to UTC can help mitigate this issue [2][3] (though, ofc, one must still be wary of time-of-day commit patterns being used to deduce a timezone).

References

Git documentation. git-commit. "Date Formats: Git internal format". Accessed: 2024-08-31T07:52Z. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#Documentation/git-commit.txt-Gitinternalformat.

It is <unix-timestamp> <time-zone-offset>, where <unix-timestamp> is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. <time-zone-offset> is a positive or negative offset from UTC. For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead of UTC) is +0100.
jthill. "How can I ignore committing timezone information in my commit?". Stack Overflow. Published: 2014-05-26T16:57:37Z. (Accessed: 2024-08-31T08:27Z). https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23874208/how-can-i-ignore-committing-timezone-information-in-my-commit#comment36750060_23874208.

to set the timezone for a specific command, say e.g. TZ=UTC git commit
Oliver. "How can I ignore committing timezone information in my commit?". Stack Overflow. Published: 2022-05-22T08:56:38Z (Accessed: 2024-08-31T08:30Z). https://stackoverflow.com/a/72336094/7934600
each commit Git stores a author date and a commit date. So you have to omit the timezone for both dates.

I solved this for my self with the help of the following Git alias:
```
[alias]
co = "!f() { \
    export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=\"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z)\"; \
    export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=\"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z)\"; \
    git commit $@; \
    git log -n 1 --pretty=\"Autor: %an <%ae> (%ai)\"; \
    git log -n 1 --pretty=\"Committer: %cn <%ce> (%ci)\"; \
}; f"
```

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git-random: build random content git trees for training purposes (git-random.olets.dev)

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Store Code Discussions in Git using Git Notes (wouterj.nl)

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How Does Git Store Files? (blog.git-init.com)

submitted 1 month ago by lysdexic to c/git

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Back-dating Git commits based on file modification dates (til.simonwillison.net)

submitted 1 month ago by canpolat to c/git

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Git Rev News Edition 113 (July 31st, 2024) (git.github.io)

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I was wrong about git stash... - YouTube (youtube.com)

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https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree

Highlights from Git 2.46 (github.blog)

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vdm: A General-Purpose Versioned-Dependency Manager (GitHub) (github.com)

submitted 1 month ago by canpolat to c/git

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How I Use Git Worktrees - Alex Kladov (matklad.github.io)

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How do you feel about storing binary files with Git? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/git

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I think it's generally agreed upon that large files that change often do not belong while small files that never change are fine. But there's still a lot of middle ground where the answer is not so clear to me.

So what's your stance on this? Where do you draw the line?

commit messages are optional (schpet.com)

submitted 1 month ago by mac to c/git

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A new git collaboration service (pr.pico.sh)

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How has Git changed the way you think about version control? (self.git)

submitted 1 month ago by canpolat to c/git

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Coming from CVS and ClearCase it took me some time to adopt to Git. The fact that it was distributed was confusing at first, for example, because I thought that would cause chaos. But the way we used it was actually not "that distributed". But once I understood how it worked, not doing DVCS was "the wrong way" immediately.

Pull requests via git push (blog.sesse.net)

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