I love the terminal, but yes, most developers live in their IDE. It’s their primary workspace, and modern IDEs like IntelliJ have great, integrated Git support. You can stage, commit, push, and manage branches without ever touching the command line.
Read more...Monorepos are a powerful strategy for managing code. By keeping all your projects in a single repository, you get a single source of truth, simplified dependency management, and easier cross-team collaboration. As influencial thought-leaders and others in the DevOps space have pointed out, monorepos are a natural fit for Trunk-Based Development (TBD) because they both revolve around a single, shared mainline of code.
Read more...One of the most valuable pieces of feedback I’ve had about tbdflow came as a simple question:
I’ve seen some teams and projects having really nice CHANGELOG.md and release notes but knowing from experience, writing release notes by hand is a pain. Scrolling through git log, guessing which commits count as features or fixes, and hoping you don’t forget something important isn’t exactly fun.
All projects need a good README.md, It’s the front door to the project and it needs to quickly show a potential user what the tool does and why it’s valuable. I put a lot of effort in having a good README for tbdflow but it was still static text, and the examples was buried deep down.