Carrying on from my earlier article about some ways in which Git is commonly misunderstood — and how I think one should understand Git — I’d like to dive a bit deeper into one of the most important things Git knows how to do: merging. If Git is often misunderstood, merging is one of the …

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Following on from my earlier blog post on understanding (and misunderstanding) Git, let’s dive deeper into some individual Git topics. Today’s article is about the branch names master and main. It’s the story of a change in the policies, at GitHub and within Git itself, about what the default initial branch name should be. This …

Of Git and GitHub, Master and Main Read More »

Usually, I write on this blog about matters directly related to developing for iOS on a Mac. I typically talk about Xcode, the Swift language, and of course iOS itself (in particular, aspects of Cocoa Touch and related frameworks). Today I’d like to switch gears and talk about another development-related topic that’s near and dear …

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