The command in this tip avoids showing merge commits because sometimes
developers will merge `master` into their feature branch in the course
of development, especially when that feature is in development for a
long time. This tip focuses on showing only those commits which
introduce new changes and ignores those merge commits for this reason.
It also displays the commits in reverse chronological order, oldest to
newest, so that the output shows the development of a feature branch
in "historical" order.
Signed-off-by: Eric James Michael Ritz <ejmr@plutono.com>
This is useful for when you realize that you forgot to mention
something important, made a typo, etc. Obviously you should avoid
using this on a commit which you have already pushed.
Signed-off-by: Eric James Michael Ritz <ejmr@plutono.com>
This tip shows how to list all ignored files in a project, which will
take into account not only any `.gitignore` file within a repository,
but also any globally defined list of exclusions such as
`/home/eric/.gitexcludes` and `.git/info/exclude` within the
repository itself.
Signed-off-by: Eric James Michael Ritz <ejmr@plutono.com>
Since 2010 Git supports the `--delete` argument for git-push as an
alias for the `:branch` syntax, i.e. these commands are equivalent:
$ git push origin :foo
$ git push origin --delete foo
This patch changes the tip to use the `--delete` argument on the
grounds that it is easier to remember, easier to understand, and
easily available since it is unlikely for people to be using a version
of Git which is more than five years old.
Signed-off-by: Eric James Michael Ritz <ejmr@plutono.com>
