git-miscellany

   

Miscellaneous collection of git helpers, utils, aliases.

Not rigorously tested, YMMV, use at your own risk. Mostly using zsh v5.9 on macOS Terminal, FWIW.

Functions

gb_safe

Check if a branch is fully contained in a target branch (i.e., safe to delete locally - all changes already included). Useful if you've done a rebase or squash and the graph is not obviously linear.

git_init_and_switch

1. Initialize an empty git repository in the current directory.
2. Create an empty initial commit.
3. Add a general-purpose, "kitchen-sink" .gitignore file and commit it.
4. Immediately switch over to a development branch.

I basically use this every time I start a new repo - in two seconds, I've set up a clean main, and then I jump straight over to a new branch where I can muck about and not worry about messing up the default branch.

git_scan_hidden

Search for any "invisible" characters that may be lurking in some code. Can search by PR number, URL, commit SHA, etc.

Hooks

pre-commit

pre-commit.notebook

This can be useful when working with Jupyter notebooks, especially authoring notebooks. Basically it "scrubs" the notebooks clean before they are committed (removes/resets outputs, etc.), so that the committed notebook is in a pristine state.

pre-push.notebook

This also runs nb-clean check on any notebooks in the directory you're working in to make sure that all notebooks are scrubbed all sparkling clean before being published.

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