Scott Chacon's FOSDEM 2024 talk on Git Tips and Tricks.

Scott talks about:

00:00 - Introduction
01:06 - About Me (well, Scott Chacon)
02:36 - How Well Do You Know Git?
05:09 - Our Agenda
06:25 - Some Helpful Config Stuff
09:42 - Oldies But Goodies
16:22 - Some New Stuff (You May Not Have Noticed)
23:48 - Some Big Repo Stuff / Monorepo Stuff
33:29 - Some New Github Stuff
35:54 - GitButler
36:50 - End of talk
37:03 - Start of Q&A Session
37:06 - Q: Why does GitHub not do git range diff?
38:28 - Q: Why do submodules suck everywhere?
40:16 - Q: With SSH signing, is it possible to specify more than one key?
40:42 - Q: Why can't --force-with-lease be the default force?
42:33 - Q: If you were back on the Git development team, what direction would you like to see it move in?
44:58 - Q: We all love the Git CLI - but do you ever use any visual tools?
46:41 - That's all folks!-

Read the blog series based on this talk here: https://blog.gitbutler.com/

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The speaker covers various topics related to Git, including helpful config options, the benefits of using SSH for signing commits, tools for working with large repositories, enforcing merge types and other requirements on GitHub, virtual branches in Git, planned improvements for submodules, desired features for Git, and the advantages of visual tools like GUIs or IDEs in Git.

So You Think You Know Git - FOSDEM 2024

<p>One of the best talks at FOSDEM 2024 :)</p>


<p>Thanks @treyjapan, the talk was too good!</p>
