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[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

geordi-no git add

geordi-yes git add -p

Otherwise, I would be staging the whole file without looking at what I'm staging first

[–] GarytheSnail@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How do you run unit tests for commits if you're only adding bits of the file?

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

You can do git stash -k before running tests.

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

You're never actually "adding" the whole file unless it's a brand-new file, git add my-file just adds every patch change for that file without confirmation.

Using git add -p my-file, the same hooks will run as if you staged and committed all changes to my-file.

[–] tuto193@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago
[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

‘git checkout -‘ to toggle between branches ‘git checkout -b branch_name’ to create and switch to a new branch.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

before every git command i use:

tar -czvf my_directory.tar.gz -C my_directory .

[–] GarytheSnail@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

I use git commit --amend --no-edit often.

Like if I forget to run a formatter before I commit and the build complains just for that.

git add -u
git commit --amend --no-edit
git push -f
[–] ShrimpsIsBugs@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

I still haven't adopted to this git switch thing

[–] Lucien@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

i dun goofed

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 0 points 11 months ago

make sure to run

cd ..
cp -r my-project my-project.bak
cd my-project

before running each command :)