When working on a feature, you might split it into several stacked branches, so you can merge each one separately. But updating such branches can be annoying since you have to manage them independently. Git 2.38 (2022-10-15) made this management easier with the new --update-refs option, which can rebase a stack of branches at once. Let’s look at a couple of examples.| adamj.eu
By default, if you mistype a Git command, it will list similar commands that you might have meant:| adamj.eu
Many Git commands output “advice”, with hints about which commands you could run next. Most notably, git status gives you advice for what to do about files in each state:| adamj.eu
I have just released an update to my book Boost Your Git DX, six months after its initial release. This update adds some extra content and has a bunch of edits based on reader feedback. The PDF is now ten pages longer, for a total of 363.| adamj.eu
Contrary to common belief, Git doesn’t store diffs. It actually stores snapshots of whole files, heavily compressed to reduce redundancy. Then when displaying a diff is required, git diff generates it on the fly.| adamj.eu
