gitz VS gitignore

When I develop a big feature, I do it on a private branch, and then I commit and push an "anonymous" commit (using this) whenever I have made any progress.

where git st is here (a lot like git status.)

No, there's no reason to preserve commit messages you used during development.

When I am developing, I make many tiny commits with an automatically generated title ('Modify util/files.py') each time my tests pass, or really, when I do anything of value. (I use `git-infer`: https://github.com/rec/gitz/blob/master/git-infer)

This makes it impossible for me to lose work, and acts like a coarse-grained undo for me, where I can quickly move back and forth between spots that the tests worked if I decide I'm going the wrong way, or create a new branch, move back a bit, and make some changes and compare.

_Before anyone sees this code_ I rebase it down to a logical sequence extremely-carefully named and organized commits. (The word "manicured" has been used more than once.)

As I go through code review, I make tiny commits and at the end, rebase them into my carefully-named commits.

I create at least five commit IDs for each final commit I created. No one wants to see these.

I spend considerable time organizing everything so just the information you need to see is in the final commits. All the information should be there.

I have a truly evil command in my gitz package https://github.com/rec/gitz called git adjust.

I have a bunch of git utilities to do common chores, but more, I tend to stack up a lot of commands at once in the command line separated by &&.

This isn't just academic - it affects every git tool. I have a collection of git utilities, fairly high quality, but a lot of my favorite ones don't work over merge commits, not because I was lazy but because I simply couldn't figure out a way to do it that made sense in every case.

In conclusion, the Gitignore repository stands as a testament to the power of collective knowledge and collaboration in software development. By providing a centralized repository of .gitignore templates, it empowers developers to streamline their workflow, maintain cleaner repositories, and focus on what they do best – writing exceptional code. As the software development landscape continues to evolve, the significance of .gitignore templates as indispensable tools for developers is set to endure.

The challenge here was actually from my #48in28 Exercism participation, where I am pretty familiar the standard layout for some repositories since I am familiar with tooling and language, working with new languages does not come with the same familiarity, so I found it made sense to use canonical definitions, hence the use of github/gitignore.

Add .env to your .gitignore file to prevent it from being committed. Here's an example file with it already added. You may also use dotenv for advanced configuration and it will automatically load environment variables from a .env file into process.env.

Here you can find ready-made .gitignore templates for various technologies and languages such as Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, and many others: https://github.com/github/gitignore/tree/main.

You could also use this git ignore template. Create you .gitignore and add the contents from that file in.

I've only used free Unity with GitHub or GitLab, professionally and reaching back into internships. One recommendation would be to use a slightly longer .gitignore than the default, like this one.

Virtual Environments are a feature that has been part of python itself since version 3.3. It allows you to isolate both a python version and any packages you install with it. Every python project I develop with uses a virtual environment for such isolation purposes. Now I generally like to create these virtual environments inside the target project's directory so I know exactly what it's tied to. If you use GitHub's python gitignore file naming the virtual environment folder as venv or .venv will ensure it doesn't get committed (which you don't want). So I'll make a new project folder and create a virtual environment inside of it:

Especially considering the GitHub .gitignore template for Node only ignores .env.local, not .local.env: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Node.gitignore...

# Get latest from https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Unity.gitignore