The most powerful git feature John Kary just learned about.
These linkbait headlines drive me crazy.
Also, relevant XKCD:
There is a little bit of exaggeration in the title to attract people. That's how you drive traffic to your site. And let's be honest, if the guy was driving traffic that way to the startup he founded, people would have much recommendation about much less honest strategies.
I found this introduction to git add -p to be extremely helpful. I've found myself in the position he describes (wanting to logically separate changes I've made to a file) many times, and I've usually handled it in a sub-optimal manner (making one commit that describes multiple changes).
Like stated before. Don't like the content? Don't upvote it. Move on. The complaining in every thread about these things are more annoying than seeing the same thing posted again after a month or two.
To avoid this in schools we sit kids in age-related classes, of small size. But the world is a big school and there is no central authority who knows what we should learn and when.
We just need better filters to block out the noise of algebra-learning kids while we work on infinite series. Those filters might be news-style forums, at least until there are too many kids at different stages on here. Then we have to work on our own filters.
And listen for the kid who shouts "My god, I built a filter to ignore calculus learning kids!"
Edit: OK, Ok there is a difference between link-bait headlines and pre-known content. But the kid has to shout something.
And I didn't use or know about the feature.
I obviously didn't just learn about patch mode... git has many powerful features, but I feel this is the most powerful of those that many git users don't know about yet that will make the biggest positive impact in their daily git use. Not that patch mode is the most powerful feature git has.
If you already know the feature, move on to the next article. Other people don't know about this feature and upvoted it.