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High-velocity, monorepo-scale workflow for Git

65 mentions on Hacker News by 26 people: 6 stories, 59 comments · first 2021-03-29 · latest 2025-12-20

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  1. …[1] https://github.com/epage/git-stack/blob/main/docs/comparison... [2] https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless
    comment by epage · 2021-10-17 · in Fast rebases with git-move
  2. The README for the parent repo ( https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless ) answers these questions in detail. Short answer, recreating this tool's features in vanilla git requires using the reflog, which isn't user-friendly: > Why not…
    comment by jonahx · 2021-06-21 · in Git undo: We can do better
  3. https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Architecture#...
    comment by nerdponx · 2021-06-21 · in Git undo: We can do better
  4. There is a design to address undoing changes to the index: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/issues/10 It runs a `git checkout`, not a `git reset --hard`, so it will stop you if there are incompatible changes. Of course, if `git…
    comment by arxanas · 2021-06-21 · in Git undo: We can do better
  5. You should check out the rest of the git-branchless suite mentioned in the article: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless . `git restack` is really useful for some of the rewrite cases. There are some other improvements to rewriting in…
    comment by arxanas · 2021-06-21 · in Git undo: We can do better
  6. There is a design for undoing changes to the staging area: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/issues/10 The similar project [Jujube]( https://github.com/martinvonz/jj ) has experimented with backing up even unstaged changes after…
    comment by arxanas · 2021-06-21 · in Git undo: We can do better
  7. …sure specifically what you're asking about, but you can see details about the architecture here: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Architecture
    comment by arxanas · 2021-04-09 · in A look how branches work in Git
  8. …to use for local prototyping. I made the branchless workflow to improve on this use-case: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless
    comment by arxanas · 2021-04-08 · in A look how branches work in Git
  9. …it anymore. If you suffer from the same problem in the article, you can also try out my tool: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless . Please send me any feedback (email in bio).
    comment by arxanas · 2021-03-29 · in Git's commit workflow is backwards, and encourages bad habits