I needed that exact functionality and Claude code and ChatGPT consistently showing this same exact combo CLI receipt with the simple prompt "how to do use CLI to remove merged branch locally."
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Re: I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
People really do need to read the “Unix Power Tools” book and realize their problem has been solved for decades.
"People just need to find the info they don't know about, so then they'll know it."
Re: I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
#133Re: I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
People really do need to read the “Unix Power Tools” book and realize their problem has been solved for decades.
"People just need to find the info they don't know about, so then they'll know it."
Saying "If you read X book, you'll realize it's a solved problem" IS the information -- the name of the book you need to read
Re: I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
#135 [1]: https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/main/Commands.md#git-delete-merged-branchesRe: I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
#136I use `master` in all my repos because I've been using it since forever and it never has once occurred to me "oh shit I better change it to `main` this time in case `master` may offend somebody some day. Unfortunately, that's the last thing on my mind when I'm in programming mode. Now that everything is `master`, maybe it is just a simple git command to change it to `main`. But, my fear is it'll subtly break somethin…
This let them claim huge diff counts and major contributions to DEI and get promos.
Re: I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
#137I use `master` in all my repos because I've been using it since forever and it never has once occurred to me "oh shit I better change it to `main` this time in case `master` may offend somebody some day. Unfortunately, that's the last thing on my mind when I'm in programming mode. Now that everything is `master`, maybe it is just a simple git command to change it to `main`. But, my fear is it'll subtly break somethin…
Re: I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
#138I use `master` in all my repos because I've been using it since forever and it never has once occurred to me "oh shit I better change it to `main` this time in case `master` may offend somebody some day. Unfortunately, that's the last thing on my mind when I'm in programming mode. Now that everything is `master`, maybe it is just a simple git command to change it to `main`. But, my fear is it'll subtly break somethin…
At Meta, when this mass push for the rename happened across the industry, a few people spent nearly the full year just shepherding the renaming of master to main, and white box/black box to allowlist/blocklist. This let them claim huge diff counts and major contributions to DEI and get promos.
Re: I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
#139I use `master` in all my repos because I've been using it since forever and it never has once occurred to me "oh shit I better change it to `main` this time in case `master` may offend somebody some day. Unfortunately, that's the last thing on my mind when I'm in programming mode. Now that everything is `master`, maybe it is just a simple git command to change it to `main`. But, my fear is it'll subtly break somethin…
At Meta, when this mass push for the rename happened across the industry, a few people spent nearly the full year just shepherding the renaming of master to main, and white box/black box to allowlist/blocklist. This let them claim huge diff counts and major contributions to DEI and get promos.
Re: I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
how do you trust the code claude wrote? don't you get anxiety "what if there's an error in tui code and it would mess up my git repo"?
> how do you trust the code claude wrote? If that's something you're worried about, review the code before running it. > don't you get anxiety "what if there's an error in tui code and it would mess up my git repo"? I think you might want to not run untrusted programs in an environment like that, alternatively find a way of start being able to trust the program. Either approaches work, and works best depending on wha…
It takes more, not less, time to thoroughly review code you didn't write.