Thursday, 12 July, 2018 UTC
Summary
One of my weaknesses as a developer is relying on UIs to provide me the data I need. It’s not a fatal weakness but it does hamper me a bit. One prime example is relying on GitHub’s interface to review changes; git’s command line provides the information needed with commands but the UI is just so much nicer.
I recently needed to trace back commits to find a problematic commit between a given date range. You can use the following git command to list commits between two dates:
$ git log --after="2018-06-30" --before="2018-07-03" --oneline 636c0ff21 Add recordTelemetryEvent() helper to debugger util fixes #6529 (#6571) 94d5e0639 [Telemetry] Fixed telemetry import to point at devtools module using transform-mc.js (#6567) 990c52150 [Editor] get mode from editor (#6563) 2f990aa0e [flow] add types for Editor/index (#6568) 7f92836ba When replaying, fix resume button bug and show pause button when unpaused. (#6582) 1840902f9 [Breakpoint] use PureComponent (#6583)
Especially nice is the
--oneline modifier to keep the commit list concise.I’d guess that 90% of git developers simply branch, commit, and push — not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it’s only about 2% of what git is capable of. Using native tools and not UIs is a badge of honor in our business, so mastering the lessor known commands can speed up development and make you less reliant on outside apps!
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