Tips from the experts on getting more from Git
Tip 7: In Memoriam Mercurial
Veteran developer Lenz Grimmer wrote: "Our team is involved in the development of the Ceph management solution openATTIC and its successor, the Ceph Dashboard. We migrated our openATTIC code repository from Mercurial to Git in April 2017 [13]. As former Mercurial users, we missed a few commands in Git, which we reverse engineered as aliases in ~/.gitconfig." See Listing 3 for some of our favorites.
Listing 3
Useful Aliases for Mercurial Users
Tip 8: Spring Cleaning
Stephan Müller integrated the function from Listing 4 into his zshrc to make life easier with Git and submodules. But be careful, this function will clean up completely and irretrievably. After this command, all submodules are as clean as after a new clone process!
Listing 4
Cleaning up the Submodules
Tip 9: git-vimdiff
Matt Oliver mentioned the benefits of git-vimdiff [14]. In addition to the normal vimdiff, which can also be connected to Git, git-vimdiff (Figure 4) offers each file in a separate tab. Vim users can conveniently scroll back and forth through them. "I use this so often now: Every time I go through a new patch set in Gerrit or GitHub, I just jump into the branch and call git vimdiff HEAD~." You can then go through the diffs one by one and read the reviewer comments in parallel.
Figure 4: SUSE developer Matt Oliver calls git-vimdiff "one of the most productive git hacks I use regularly."
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