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Part 13 of 16
This series groups articles which discuss specific code or technical concepts (as opposed to the process of working, etc.) If the blog consisted of only these articles, it would be a technical blog.
Finding a bug by checking git history one commit at a time
I’m far from a command line wizard, but am gradually picking up more tricks and tips as time goes by. I recently found a styling bug I was confident I’d introduced in the previous few commits, but I wasn’t sure which one. In the past I’ve used git bi...
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