Git shortcut to checkout recent branches

The way MySQL's FULLTEXT tokenizer splits text into word tokens might not always be what you need. E.g. it splits a word at period characters.

Since the tokenizer has near-zero configuration options (minimum word length and stopwords list), you n...

If a project ist configured to spawn CI runners for tests or deployment when pushing to the Repo, a habit of pushing WIP commits regularly may conflict with that.
Here are two solutions that allow you to keep pushing whenever you feel like it.

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git --fixup is very handy to amend a change to a previous commit. You can then autosquash your commits with git rebase -i --autosquash and git will do the magic for you and brin...

greckout query

This will list all branches matching your query as input options for git checkout

  greckout ar
  
  1) ar/cache-api-keys-1098
  2) ar/add-categories-object-to-tv-show-1382
  3) ...

Inspired by recent "git shortcut" cards I figured it would be nice to have one of these for rebasing a few commits onto another branch. The usual notation is prone to of-by-one errors as you have to either specify the commit before the ones you ...

This is an story checklist I use to work on stories. For this purpose I extracted several cards related to the makandra process and ported them into a check list...

We often have a separate production branch that lags a bit behind the more cutting edge main branch. Sometimes you want to move some, but not all commits from main to production. This can be done with a git cherry-pick.

However, this ma...

Basic configuration

Please keep this config simple. It should be a starting point for new developers learning Git.

[user]
  name = Your Name
  email = your.name@domain.com

[branch]
  sort = -committerdate
[color]
   ui = auto
[color "bra...

So you're using multiple remotes that offer the same branch?

$ git branch -a | grep my-branch
  remotes/something/my-branch
  remotes/origin/my-branch

And when trying to check out that remote branch, it fails for you with an error li...