Code Talk with Matt & Steven

Source Control as Conversation

Episode Summary

Let your commits tell a story - your future self will thank you!

Episode Notes

On this episode, Craig Davis from Help Scout joins Matt and Steven as they discuss "Source Control as Conversation".

What does your commit history look like? Does it tell a story? Do you look back and wonder "what the hell did this commit do?" Join the guys as they discuss best practices in the style, tone, and tense.

Show Notes

• diff so fancy
• example .gitconfig
• interactive rebasing
• star logs
• Craig's site

Craig's git up: Improved fetching https://github.com/aanand/git-up

up = "!git fetch && git rebase --autostash FETCH_HEAD"