Organise Before You Stage: Changelists for Git
The article discusses the introduction of changelists for Git, a feature that allows developers to organize their changes before staging. Changelists function as named groups of modified files, providing clarity and flexibility in the development workflow. The author shares insights on how to implement and utilize changelists to improve productivity and manage review processes effectively.
- ▪Changelists serve as sticky notes for your working directory, allowing you to group modified files under a name before staging or committing.
- ▪The git-cl command adds changelists to your workflow, enabling multiple focused commits without affecting the staging area until explicitly staged.
- ▪Changelists can represent different stages in the review process, allowing developers to track the status of files as they progress through various checks.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3774191) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } BHFock Posted on May 16 Organise Before You Stage: Changelists for Git #git #changelists #devtools #productivity Real development is rarely linear. You're mid-feature when you spot a typo in the README, or a stray debug statement left over from last week. Before long your working directory is a pile of loosely related edits, and the staging area gives you exactly one place to put them. I ran into this problem when my team migrated from Subversion to Git.
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