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Selectively ignore lines in git diff

I have a things-as-code project that outputs mostly text-based formats, but a lot of them. To keep an eye on consistency, I rebuild all the outputs and dump them into a local git repository so I can very easily diff … Continue reading →

Git renames are not renames

I consider myself pretty git-confident, I’ve worked with it a lot, taught it, been a git consultant, run engineering and various things-as-code teams. This week I had a spectactular git problem where merging one branch into another produced changes that … Continue reading →

Manage Diagrams in AsciiDoc on GitHub

I use a lot of asciidoc these days for work documentation (and I love it) and I’ve been so happy that GitHub renders it when you view a repository in the web browser, just like it does for Markdown and … Continue reading →

Publish to GitHub pages with Sphinx

I’m a big fan of docs-as-code for more or less any type of content publishing, but I’m less of a fan of Jekyll, the default tool used in GitHub pages. I also prefer ReStructuredText over Markdown as a markup format, … Continue reading →

Querying the GitHub GraphQL API

In a recent project around open source contributors, I wanted to take a look at which projects a particular user (actually a few of them, but I wrote a wrapper to repeat the process for each handle) maintains. GitHub doesn’t … Continue reading →

Run GitHub Actions on Subdirectories

I come across a lot of “greedy” GitHub Actions, where automation is running across a whole project instead of only on the parts that are relevant. Examples might be code linters that report problems with documentation folders, or the inverse … Continue reading →

Use multi-line values in GitHub Actions

I created an action that needed a rich Markdown value in it, because it’s our weekly meeting agenda template which is formatted for humans with links and paragraphs and things. The Action syntax produced errors when trying to add the … Continue reading →

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