Timestamped Git yolo commits
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Kyle Shevlin blogged about his belief in detailed atomic commits at work. On the contrary, he changes entire projects with a single commit in side projects. I feel you, Kyle.
To improve the side hustle commit chaos, Kyle added a make command called checkpoint to at least occasionally add progress to version control.
I have the same YOLO commit traits and, of course, I love this approach!
But I don't use make, so I created a more general solution as a custom Git command.
Quick tip: git- prefixed shell commands available in your $PATH will become git commands automatically.
A git-yolo shell file now defines my new git yolo command that's based on Kyle's original script.
#!/usr/bin/env sh
echo "🚀 You only live once, right?"
echo ""
git add -A
git commit -m "yoloing at $(date '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M')"
git push
echo ""
echo "⬆️ Yolo Checkpoint created and pushed to remote."
As a result, whenever I don't feel like (or don't care about) maintaining a clean Git history — git yolo will do the job.
$ git yolo
🚀 You only live once, right?
[main 23c80e0] yoloing at 2024-03-30T08:22
1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 fo
...
...
⬆️ Yolo Checkpoint created and pushed to remote
The Git history will then include some "yolo checkpoints" — at least.
$ git log
commit 23c80e... (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: stefan judis <stefanjudis@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Mar 30 08:22:07 2024 +0100
yoloing at 2024-03-30T08:22
commit 53yd07... (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: stefan judis <stefanjudis@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Mar 30 08:10:23 2024 +0100
yoloing at 2024-03-30T08:10
Nice nice!
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