Getting in the habit of crafting high-quality commits makes the use and collaboration with revision control systems such as Git a lot easier and more effective. Good commits help us: Find out why a change was made. Understand the different trade-off…

This post is part of an ongoing series on dotfiles. In today's episode we look at dotfiles for Git. rerere The first item I'd like to call attention to is a little known option called "reuse recorded resolution", or rerere for short. It's a feature w…

Chances are, if you're reading this article and you're a programmer, you're working with Git, or at least some form of version control. But do you really get (g)it? This article will dive into what makes Git, or any other comparable distributed versi…