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p_wood

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    Comment #46404053

    > In my experience pre-commit hooks are most often used to generate a starting commit message. The `prepare-commit-msg` hook is a better place to do that as it gives the hook some …

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    Comment #44170042

    It would be really nice to have this upstream - I don't know if the upstream implementation being in C now makes that easier or harder. As for the license I think because this is s…

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    Comment #44139168

    I like the idea of 'G' to filter hunks. The perl script does not exist since git v2.40.0 so I don't think the installation instructions work for recent versions of git as there is …

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    Comment #44023934

    I use an app password but https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/git-credential-email apparently supports OAuth with Gmail, yahoo and outlook

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    Comment #43446304

    > eval "$CMD" That means you will eval all the filenames, so if you have a file with spaces in it will appear as two files, if there is a `$` in the name it will trigger parameter …

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    Comment #43397859

    > It’s frustrating that tarball urls are a proprietary thing and not something that was ever standardized in the git protocol. `git archive --remote` will create a tarball from a r…

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    Comment #43397816

    For rebasing `--reapply-cherry-picks` will avoid the annoying fetching you saw. `git backfill` is great for fetching the history of a file before running `git blame` on that file. …