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Cocogitto: The conventional commit toolbox

I highly recommend you incorporate cocogitto into your workflow.I've been using it for a few months now, and it's been great to tighten up my git commit messages, and enable a lot of things like changelog generation...

Posted 2025-05-17 | Tags: cli, git, rust | 136 words

Git Blame Ignore Revs

I've been a part of a lot of code cleanups, and touching legacy codebases. Often times I'd run prettier, or a linter or formatter across the entire codebase and change a whole lot that is not really changing the functionality, but the readability of the codebase. And I didn't like it when my name would be the last name on a git blame when I may not really know much about that part of the code, but my name is there because I ran that linter/formatter.

Posted 2025-04-29 | Tags: git, til | 160 words