fixes the smart way

Fixing things the smart way

During development I’m constantly applying small fixes to my code. It could be anything from improving some comments, simplifying some conditional statements, or doing a small refactoring like extracting some lines into a simple method. Most of the time these small fixes end up either in small commits that dilute the git history or in commits that have a completely different focus and thus dilute the change set of those commits. But there is a better way to incorporate those kind of changes into your codebase.

FrOSCon 14

Last weekend I visited the FrOSCon 14 in Sankt Augustin. The FrOSCon is a two day conference that’s completely free for visitors and focuses, as the name indicates, on free and open source software. On Sunday a gave a talk about git “Git Fu Developing”. You can watch the recording either on the CCC website[…]