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World Congress 2022 • Jun 15, 2022

Git for Code Reviews

Johannes Haux

Drowning in massive, chaotic pull requests? Master interactive rebasing, clean atomic commits, and history rewriting to make your code reviews fast, painless, and perfectly structured.

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#1 about 4 min

Introduction to git flow and clean feature branches

Context on structural workflows and the value of a clean history for code reviews.

#2 about 6 min

Staging partial files with the patch command

How to stage specific parts of a single file to create atomic commits.

#3 about 3 min

Updating the most recent commit with amend

Modifying the latest commit to fix mistakes without polluting the history log.

#4 about 3 min

Incorporating main branch changes via rebase

Moving a feature branch forward to the end of the main branch to maintain a linear history.

#5 about 2 min

Modifying older commits using interactive rebase

Stepping back through branch history to target and amend earlier commits.

#6 about 2 min

Squashing history automatically with fixup commits

Generating targeted fixup commits and using auto-squash to merge them seamlessly.

#7 about 3 min

Overwriting remote repositories via force pushing

Safely updating remote origins after performing local rebasing or amending operations.

#8 about 4 min

Handling review priorities, collaboration, and commit details

Audience discussion concerning review tooling limitations, teammate impact from history changes, and descriptive commit formatting.

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Adopting standard branching strategies and utilizing repository forks

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Favorite git commands and the importance of patch commits

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