Empower Apps - Understanding Git with Ben Chatelain

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Ben Chatelain (@phatblat)
- Github @phatblat - for great commit message examples!
- 😎Some Cool DJ Sets 😎

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Tip: always delete topic branches after merging a PR (or have GitHub do it for you)
Ben’s git shortcuts as fish shell functions
- amendne - amend the last commit, reusing the existing commit message
- bundle-pull - transports a dirty working copy from one machine to another.
- git_bundle_create - creates a git bundle by stashing a dirty working copy
- ignore - adds file paths to .gitignore file
- lg, lga - minimal yet pimped out history graph
- new - show new commits received after a pull
- pop - remove the last commit, but keep the changes in the working copy
- publish - push a new branch to a remote
- review - inspect the last commit
- rewrite - uses filter-repo to correct an author email typo (destructive)
- scrub - uses filter-branch to delete files from history (destructive)
- root - prints the path to the root of the local repo
- stash, stsave, stlist, stshow, stpop, stdrop - functions for working with stashes
- suri - submodule update recursive init

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