Webinar takeaway: Releasing Your First (Python) Open Source Project to the Masse

My key takeaways

• Version control is not for dev only. eg filename for docs 😉
• Fear of Git is quite common
• great way of explaining git:
  • staging: collect changes to track
  • if you get it on the CLI it is much easier to understand it in any other tool
  • remove the file due to pw-oopsie: nope it’s in the history
  • if you pushed it, no way to remove it anymore => change the pw!
  • good commit message avoid having to read every single commit to understand the changes
  • "main" is the new "master"
  • git merge merges something into the branch I’m in
  • git reset --hard pick the sticky note and move it around
  • dangling commit : commits that don’t reference to any commit <- stays there forever
  • what is a rebase?
• "Awesome lists" are a concept for resources in open source community

Env

• Provided by Wild West Hackin Fest
• Presenter: Ian Lee

additional links

• https://git-school.github.io/visualizing-git/#free-remote