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Advanced Git Magic

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Here's the recording of a cool talk by Pauline Vos given at Full Stack Europe 2022. In this talk she shares a couple of cool things you can do with Git.

Together with my buddies Dries and Rias, I'm already organising the next edition of Full Stack Europe, which will be held in October 2023 in Antwerp, Belgium. You can get your early bird tickets on our website.

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Saying goodbye to WIP commit messages

Original – by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

There are two kinds of developers: those that write commit messages and value a repo's history and those that don't. I'm in the latter camp: most of my commit messages just read "WIP", much to the chagrin of some of my colleagues. I've tried to change my ways, but I just can't get into the habit of writing good commit messages.

But now I have a solution: I use the power of AI to write my commit messages for me. In this blog post, I'll show you how I did it.

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