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1,677 articles · page 40 of 140GitHub Branch Protection Rules and Rulesets: Protect main Step by Step
Protect branches on GitHub: classic protection rules vs rulesets, required pull requests, approvals, status checks, force-push and deletion blocks, and tags.
GitHub Personal Access Tokens: Create, Use and Secure Fine-Grained Tokens
Create and use GitHub personal access tokens: fine-grained vs classic, permissions, using a PAT with Git and the API, tokens in CI, management and fixes.
Git Internals Explained: Objects, Trees, Commits, Refs and HEAD
Understand Git internals: the .git folder, blob, tree, commit and tag objects, hashes, refs and HEAD, how commands map to internals, and packfiles.
Git Submodules Explained: Add, Clone, Update and Remove Submodules
Learn Git submodules: add a submodule, .gitmodules, clone with --recurse-submodules, update to newer commits, change code inside, remove, CI and alternatives.
Git Hooks and Husky: Automate Checks with pre-commit, commit-msg and pre-push
Automate quality with Git hooks: hook types, write a pre-commit hook, share hooks with core.hooksPath and Husky, lint-staged, commitlint and pre-commit.
git bisect: Find the Commit That Broke Your Code (Manual and Automatic)
Use git bisect to find the commit that introduced a bug: binary search, manual good and bad marking, automatic bisect run with tests, skip and best practices.
git reflog: Recover Lost Commits, Deleted Branches and Bad Rebases
Use git reflog to recover lost work: read the reflog, undo reset --hard, restore deleted branches, undo bad rebases and amends, and recover dropped stashes.
Interactive Rebase in Git: Squash, Reword, Reorder, Edit and Drop Commits
Clean up history with git rebase -i: the todo list, squash vs fixup, reword, reorder, drop, edit and split commits, autosquash, conflicts and recovery.
Git Workflow Best Practices for Teams (Checklist and Anti-Patterns)
Git best practices for teams: daily habits, branches and PRs, protecting main, security, history hygiene, what to commit, anti-patterns and a checklist.
Git and GitHub in VS Code: Stage, Commit, Branch, Merge and Pull Requests
Use Git and GitHub in VS Code: the Source Control view, staging and committing, branches, publishing to GitHub, merge conflicts, history, stash and extensions.
How to Write Good Git Commit Messages (and Use Conventional Commits)
Write great Git commit messages: subject and body rules, good vs bad examples, Conventional Commits types and scopes, breaking changes and commitlint.
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