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Tweak your Terminal for Git

Jason McCreary on May 24, 2017

Tweaking your terminal for Git will not only make it easier to use Git, but also make your fellow developers jealous. Many people have asked about...
 
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Jason McCreary • Edited

No fault. Homebrew is a great package manager and definitely makes it easy to install things on macOS. However, since macOS runs atop a Unix core, I've rarely found the need to use Homebrew. Often you can make and install directly from source. Admittedly a bit low-level, but I guess I'm used to it from my days as a C dev.

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umar-daraz

I would add 97 things a programmer should know, to this list.
It is a amazing read containing 97 articles about different aspects of our job as a programmer

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Jean Gatt

Great article, but if you have homebrew installed there is much simpler way I think -> github.com/bobthecow/git-flow-comp...

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Jason McCreary

Definitely do so if you're using homebrew. I'm not a fan of homebrew. I typically just install from source given the Unix core of macOS.

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Uğur "vigo" Özyılmazel

Hi! check out my tweaks :)

github.com/vigo/dotfiles-light#pro...

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Cary Miller

Hey, great write-up! I've had a lot of fun tweaking my bash prompt for git recently. I'll have to give some of your suggestions a try.

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Alex Pliutau

Can be useful for terminal too!

github.com/plutov/o

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Pratik Ambani • Edited

This is what I was looking for since long!!! Thanks Jason.
Can you suggest me how do we automate(schedule) commit and push at frequent intervals?

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Jason McCreary

I don't make commits based on time. Check out When to make Git commits.