TIL on Cory Knox

New TIL tag and posts

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

For a while at Chocolatey, we have had a Slack channel for things we learned. For almost as long I have been meaning to add a post about the things I learned to my blog. Recently, Julia Evans shared about her creation of a small “TIL” section on her site.

With that in mind, I have created a “TIL” tag on my blog, as well as redirecting https://coryknox.dev/til to the listing page for the tag.

Also at Julia’s encouragement, I have created a PowerShell script that will create a new page for me and open the file in vscode.

Automatically setup remote tracking branch

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I learned this on CSharpFritz’s stream: git config --global --add --bool push.autoSetupRemote true. This allows you to be able to just do git push and it’ll automatically setup a remote tracking branch on your default remote.

Prevent force pushing even when remote is fetched automatically

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Today I learned from Scott Chacon about the --force-if-includes on git push. When used alongside --force-with-lease will negate the troubles potentially caused by applications that periodically git fetch for you. Basically it will prevent you from pushing if you’re pushing to a remote that has a commit that is not a common ancestor of what you’re pushing I think… If my testing is correct, then it’ll act like --force-with-lease when the remote has not been fetched down, but in the scenario where it has actually been fetched down. (Source: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-push#Documentation/git-push.txt---no-force-if-includes)

Stash untracked changes in a way that git stash reports them

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve learned that you can do git stash -u to stash untracked files as well as tracked files… But nothing will show you those files in the stash by default… Instead, if you do git add <untracked files> and then git stash, they are magically tracked files even if they’re not actually committed to the repository.