{"id":23824,"date":"2015-04-07T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T10:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=23824"},"modified":"2015-04-07T12:30:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T10:30:33","slug":"git-tips-from-the-trenches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/07\/git-tips-from-the-trenches\/","title":{"rendered":"Git tips from the trenches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Git tips from the trenches<\/a>\u00a0– doesn’t matter how many times I read git tips from around the web, it seems, every time I find something new. \u00a0This time, ‘git blame’ tips and commit notes were useful.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Git tips from the trenches\u00a0– doesn’t matter how many times I read git tips from around the web, it seems, every time I find something new. \u00a0This time, ‘git blame’ tips and commit notes were useful.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Git tips from the trenches #git #programming #webdev","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62,1334],"tags":[2265,1588,1330],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-23824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-git","tag-version-control","tag-web-development","post_format-post-format-link"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27671,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/08\/git-commit-good-practice\/","url_meta":{"origin":23824,"position":0},"title":"Git Commit Good Practice","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Open Stack wiki has an excellent guide on how to create good commits. \u00a0In a few places it is too specific to Open Stack development practices, but overall it's one of the best guides I've seen for any project using git. 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