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Git

Miscellaneous Git-related links. My posts are under the Git tag, and many of them link out to others.

Output formats, especially of underappreciated commands

• How to read git show-branch

GitHub’s flaws

• GitHub, Gerrit, & Commits
• GitHub’s Code Review History
• 2026 Performance: github and the crime against software

Alternatives to Conventional Commits

• Scoped Commits
  • FAQ links to resources for “Commit logs do not make good Changelogs”

Racy Git

• Git LFS description
• How Git learned to deal better with timestamps
• Racy Git “magic”
• The Git index race condition

Communication

• Communicating in Pull Requests

Commit messages

I have a long backlog of items to add here, so please be patient. If your favorite resource isn’t listed, contact me and I’ll prioritize reviewing and including it.

• Not writing commit messages is Chesterton’s middle finger
• As far back as 2009 (and probably earlier), programmers were writing On commit messages. It’s like the shopping cart test; “a commit message shows whether a developer is a good collaborator.”

Collections of articles

• Git Rev News
• Edward Thomson’s Advent of Git