git log is one of the most powerful and yet most underused inspection tools in Git. While many developers use it only to view basic commit history, it can be turned into a highly flexible data-extraction and data-generation tool. With the right flags and formatting options, git log becomes not…
Welcome to the next pikoTutorial! What’s the problem? Imagine that you are working on a feature branch called target_branch and someone else commits some folder to another feature branch called source_branch. You need this folder, but these are completely different branches, with different changes and diverged history, so you can’t…