Over several years now I’ve used Git in developing patches for WordPress core, for which we committers still use SVN to actually commit patches, for better or worse. While working on patches in a fork, however, Git is definitely for better. I’ve found a lot of value in using GitHub for reviewing and collaborating on … Continue reading Ignoring files in a Git repo without touching .gitignore
On the command line shell, there is a magic symbol “-” (hyphen). When dealing with streams, it can refer to STDIN or STDOUT. When used in the context of the cd command, the – refers to the previous directory (it is the same as $OLDPWD). So you can switch between two directories by repeatedly entering … Continue reading Referring to the Previous Git Commit
As seen previously on this blog, in Contributing to WordPress Core via GitHub and Streamlining Contributions to WordPress Core via GitHub, there are instructions for how to get a Git repo set up for committing patches for WordPress Core. These posts also include instructions for how to set up Travis CI to restrict reporting linting errors to just the scope of the changed lines … Continue reading Git pre-commit hook for WordPress development
