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  1. How To Create GitHub Avatars For Pairs

    Whether you love or hate pairing, we can all agree that attributing work to...

    Jessie Young
    November 21, 2013
    • Git
  2. No Newline at End of File

    Have you ever seen “No newline at end of file” in your git diffs? Us, too....

    Mike Burns
    November 15, 2013
    • Unix
    • Vim
    • Git
  3. git bisect

    git bisect is amazing. You don’t know what it is? Let me fill you in! git...

    Jason Draper
    August 9, 2013
    • Git
  4. It's For The Orphans!

    Too often, I come across GitHub Pages branches (gh-pages) branches that are...

    Caleb Hearth
    April 27, 2013
    • Git
  5. 5 Useful Tips For A Better Commit Message

    You’re already writing decent commit messages. Let’s see if we can level you...

    Caleb Hearth
    April 26, 2013
    • Git
  6. Refactor in a branch

    This blog post is about refactoring, git, long-lived branches, and scope...

    Mike Burns
    December 18, 2012
    • Git
    • Good Code
  7. Xcode and git: bridging the gap

    Apple integrated git into Xcode 4 in 2011 much to the relief of iOS...

    Mark Adams
    October 18, 2012
    • Git
    • iOS
  8. 8 New Steps for Fixing Other People's Code

    Way back in mid-2007, when Rails 1.2 was the new hotness and GitHub was still...

    Alex Grant
    September 15, 2012
    • Web
    • Git
    • Ruby
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  9. Git Landscaping

    I recently worked on a project with 60+ old feature branches. Most of them...

    Josh Steiner
    August 15, 2012
    • Git
  10. Clone Me Maybe

    Let’s say you’re on the GitHub page for rails/rails. Copying the URL from the...

    Gabe Berke-Williams
    July 21, 2012
    • Git
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