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Yesterday's email<\/a> talked about whether commented-out code should be present if your code is version-controlled, but how do you avoid committing it in the first place?<\/p>\n\n

You could make sure that you remove everything manually before you stage and commit your changes, or I like to use git add --patch<\/code> (or git add -p<\/code>) to interactively stage my changes, allowing me to select which parts of files I want to include in my commit and ignore anything else. The --patch<\/code> option also works for other commands, including checkout<\/code> and reset<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n

If you've already committed something like some debug code, you can use git commit --amend<\/code> to amend the previous commit before pushing it, or if you have a separate clean-up commit, you can use git rebase --interactive<\/code> and either the squash or fixup options to amend the original commit.<\/p>\n\n

If some old code has been removed and you want to find it, you can use git log -S<\/code> with a string to search for, and Git will show a list of commits where the specified string was changed.<\/p>\n\n

If instead, you wanted to search for text within the commit message, you can use git log --grep<\/code> with a string like an issue number to see a list of commits with that text in the commit message subject line or body.<\/p>\n\n

I hope these tips help keep unwanted code out of your version-control repository.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

Yesterday's email<\/a> talked about whether commented-out code should be present if your code is version-controlled, but how do you avoid committing it in the first place?<\/p>\n\n

You could make sure that you remove everything manually before you stage and commit your changes, or I like to use git add --patch<\/code> (or git add -p<\/code>) to interactively stage my changes, allowing me to select which parts of files I want to include in my commit and ignore anything else. The --patch<\/code> option also works for other commands, including checkout<\/code> and reset<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n

If you've already committed something like some debug code, you can use git commit --amend<\/code> to amend the previous commit before pushing it, or if you have a separate clean-up commit, you can use git rebase --interactive<\/code> and either the squash or fixup options to amend the original commit.<\/p>\n\n

If some old code has been removed and you want to find it, you can use git log -S<\/code> with a string to search for, and Git will show a list of commits where the specified string was changed.<\/p>\n\n

If instead, you wanted to search for text within the commit message, you can use git log --grep<\/code> with a string like an issue number to see a list of commits with that text in the commit message subject line or body.<\/p>\n\n

I hope these tips help keep unwanted code out of your version-control repository.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "1970-01-01T00:33:45+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "f2a468fba8e2f7e05ff09b2678031534", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }