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git on Maëlle Salmon's personal website https://masalmon.eu/tags/git/ Recent content in git on Maëlle Salmon's personal website Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Licence: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC BY-SA</a> Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Zut, Git ! Porting {saperlipopette} to the terminal with Claude https://masalmon.eu/2026/02/27/zut-saperlipopette-claude/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://masalmon.eu/2026/02/27/zut-saperlipopette-claude/ A while ago, I decided to learn some Rust. I bought a book, opened it months later and started a small side-project: porting my R package saperlipopette to the terminal by writing a CLI with Rust. I then lost steam and discarded the project. Now, teaching more Git with saperlipopette has me itching to do the same outside of R, to reach more learners. And in the meantime, even though I have conflicting feelings about it, I realized that using an LLM, specifically Claude Code (Opus 4. Git commits: please mark your stitches! https://masalmon.eu/2026/02/15/stitch-markers-git-commits/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://masalmon.eu/2026/02/15/stitch-markers-git-commits/ In which I share a crochet analogy for Git commits… This post was featured on the R Weekly highlights podcast hosted by Eric Nantz and Mike Thomas. Don’t forget your stitch markers! I am happily continuing my crochet learning journey. One lesson I have now internalised is that I should never ever forget or neglect to use stitch markers. Stitch markers are sort of small, not spiky, safety pins. A crochet project featuring several stitch markers (beginning of a Snorlax from Lee Sartori’s Pokemon crochet book) Does my test really validate a bug fix? Check it with git cherry-pick https://masalmon.eu/2024/08/29/cherrypick-test/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://masalmon.eu/2024/08/29/cherrypick-test/ Earlier this year I wrote a post about git worktree that allows you to load different versions of an R package at once on your computer. To keep with the “juggle between versions of a codebase with Git plant-related commands” theme, let me show you how I use cherry-pick to assess the quality of an unit test. Scenario: you fix a bug in a branch In a perfect world, the bug you’re working on is paired with a ✨ reprex ✨, and you even start your work by adding a test case for it. Hack your way to a good Git history https://masalmon.eu/2024/06/11/rewrite-git-history/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://masalmon.eu/2024/06/11/rewrite-git-history/ I’ve now explained on this blog why it’s important to have small, informative Git commits1 and how I’ve realized that polishing history can happen in a second phase of work in a branch. However, I’ve more or less glossed over how to craft the history in a branch once you’re done with the work. I’ve entitled this post “Hack your way to a good Git history” because writing the history after the fact can feel like cheating, but it’s not! Why you need small, informative Git commits https://masalmon.eu/2024/06/03/small-commits/ Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://masalmon.eu/2024/06/03/small-commits/ This post was featured on the R Weekly highlights podcast hosted by Eric Nantz and Mike Thomas. “Make small Git commits with informative messages” is a piece of advice we hear a lot when learning Git. That’s why we might want to sometimes rewrite history in a branch. In this post, I’d like to underline three main (😉) reasons why you’ll be happy you, or someone else, made small and informative Git commits in a codebase. Load different R package versions at once with git worktree https://masalmon.eu/2024/01/23/git-worktree/ Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://masalmon.eu/2024/01/23/git-worktree/ This post was featured on the R Weekly highlights podcast hosted by Eric Nantz and Mike Thomas. Do you ever see GitHub issue comments where someone posts the results of a reprex with a current package version, and then with an older one, to prove a regression? How would you go about preparing such a report? Today I learnt there is a clean way to have different versions of a codebase at once on your computer, thanks to the ever powerful Git. Reading notes on Pro Git by Scott Chacon https://masalmon.eu/2024/01/19/pro-git-scott-chacon-reading-notes/ Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://masalmon.eu/2024/01/19/pro-git-scott-chacon-reading-notes/ As mentioned about a million times on this blog, last year I read Git in practice by Mike McQuaid and it changed my life – not only giving me bragging rights about the reading itself. 😅 I decided to give Pro Git by Scott Chacon a go too. It is listed in the resources section of the excellent “Happy Git with R” by Jenny Bryan, Jim Hester and others. For unclear reasons I bought the first edition instead of the second one. Introducing saperlipopette, a package to practice Git! https://masalmon.eu/2024/01/18/saperlipopette-package-practice-git/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://masalmon.eu/2024/01/18/saperlipopette-package-practice-git/ I got more confident with Git since reading Git in practice. This has resulted in a more enjoyable Git practice! I’m also more keen to sharing Git “tips” with others, but felt it was challenging to quickly come up with examples to demo some Git workflows. This is what motivated my creating saperlipopette, an R package containing small Git playgrounds to practice various Git commands and strategies! What is saperlipopette? The saperlipopette package creates Git messes, or playgrounds, that users need to solve. The two phases of commits in a Git branch https://masalmon.eu/2023/12/07/two-phases-git-branches/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://masalmon.eu/2023/12/07/two-phases-git-branches/ I seem to have at last entered my Git era. 🎉 Reading and applying Git in practice was probably the best thing I did for my upskilling this year. One Git workflow aspect I’ve finally realized is that it’s fine to have two phases of work in a Git branch. I’ll explain it in this post. Set up: create a branch for your work! Ideally, in most cases, when adding a feature or fixing a bug or whatever, I’ll work in a branch. Reading notes on Git in Practice by Mike McQuaid https://masalmon.eu/2023/11/01/reading-notes-git-in-practice/ Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://masalmon.eu/2023/11/01/reading-notes-git-in-practice/ While preparing materials for teaching Git a few months ago, I re-read Suzan Baert’s excellent post about Git and GitHub, where she mentioned having read “Git in Practice” by Mike McQuaid. I added the book to my Momox alerts, where it got available a few weeks later. The book source is on GitHub. The book isn’t too heavy, so I took it with me on a long train journey! 🚋