Tim Pope

In case you’ve been living under a programming rock, Ctags (specifically Exuberant Ctags , not the BSD version shipped with OS X) indexes source code to make it easy to jump to functions, variables, classes, and other identifiers in (among other editors) Vim (see :help tags ). The major downside to Ctags is having to…

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A Note About Git Commit Messages

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I want to take a moment to elaborate on what makes a well formed commit message. I think the best practices for commit message formatting is one of the little details that makes Git great. Understandably, some of the first commits to rails.git have messages of the really-long-line variety, and I want to expand on why…