Are you getting by with a few fundamental commands for Git when building your Python projects? Would you like to improve your version control techniques and become more efficient with the Git command line? This week on the show, Adam Johnson is back to talk about his new book, “Boost Your Git DX.”

Adam brings advice about creating a Git configuration, enabling autocorrect, and customizing a global ignore file. He combed through the cryptic documentation and found the valuable developer settings, so you won’t have to.

Adam also shares tools and settings to speed up your terminal workflows. We discuss configuring Zsh, creating aliases, and comparing diffs. We briefly dig into the most recent update to Django and his work on the project.

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Topics:

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:02:13 – When did you start working on this book?
00:06:11 – Git’s tendency to be inscrutable
00:08:57 – Audience for the book
00:09:47 – What have you learned about writing?
00:13:41 – What were you most excited to share?
00:14:34 – Global Git ignore
00:19:53 – Sponsor: Taipy
00:20:58 – Backing up configuration
00:22:37 – Git autocorrect
00:24:48 – Recovering from mistakes
00:27:58 – Creating terminal aliases in Zsh
00:31:59 – Using a Colemak keyboard layout
00:34:33 – Changing the diff-options to histogram
00:37:22 – Altering the global configuration file
00:39:36 – Video Course Spotlight
00:41:05 – Brief history of the Git project
00:44:27 – delta - syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output
00:45:22 – pygments-git - Pygments lexers for Git output and files
00:46:56 – What are you excited about in the world of Git?
00:49:17 – What are you excited about in the world of Python?
00:52:51 – What do you want to learn next?
00:53:50 – How can people follow your work online?
00:55:23 – Thanks and goodbye

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