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Really well written. The other articles in the series on computer graphics are excellent too. The use of GitHub to show diffs of each step is quite effective.
by jcoffland 8y ago
Really well written. The other articles in the series on computer graphics are excellent too. The use of GitHub to show diffs of each step is quite effective.
- mi_lk 8y ago> The use of GitHub to show diffs of each step is quite effective. Little off-topic, but that's one of the reasons I like to use Magit on Emacs, you can see the diff of each commit interactively and intuitively. [1]:https://magit.vc/ https://magit.vc/
- codetrotter 8y agoGit can show you the diff of any commit as well, though I guess maybe the interactivity you mentioned is important. Anyhow, with just git. Diff of most recent commit: git show HEAD Diff of preceding commit: git show HEAD^ Diff of commit before that again git show HEAD^^ Of course you don’t want to type ^ 200 times. Fortunately you don’t have to. Diff of commit three steps back before most recent: git show HEAD~3 Or you can look at the log first git log And find a specific commit and then use the first few characters of the id of that commit, e.g. git show af4c And of course I would be remiss to not mention git diff And git diff --cached These two show you unstaged and staged changes before you commit. I use these commands all the time. So much that they are two of the commands I have created very short two-letter aliases for in my .bashrc alias di="git diff --cached" alias dp="git diff"