How often have you found commit messages in your Git history to be uninformative? Or alternatively, wordy rambles that are slow to read — and may well not have the information you need anyway?

Headline + Bullet Points is an approach I’ve found to make Git commit messages informative and fast to write.

Continuing last month’s theme of searching Git history — here we look at how to find the source of changes, even after other people have worked on (or reformatted) the area in question.

The question:  which commit actually introduced a given string into the file? Continue reading →

Working on many separate enhancements.. How to find which branch my changes to a particular file are on? And if a file was deleted, how can I find that?

Luckily, Git can help us! Continue reading →