Programming

Recover from (nearly) anything, using Git

Ever faced a disaster with git rebase or reset --hard? Don't panic! Today, you'll learn how to undo most mistakes and recover from nearly anything. Perfect for any developer!Turn Git nightmares into success stories!

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For some reason, you were sure your rebase had gone right, and you pushed to origin. Or perhaps you reset --hard, but on the wrong commit. Then pushed -f to origin.

But you were wrong. And since you were the only dev on the project, everything you did in the last 4 weeks is now gone.

Absurd, I know. It shouldn't be possible. I agree. But now that we've said that, what should we do? Fixing the process won't recover those weeks of work.

Well, fret not, because your cause might just not be lost. How do I know? I've been there myself. Ten minutes ago.

Reset a whole range of commits, at once, in a single commit, while preserving your Git history

Oh no! This shouldn't have been released! We were supposed to x, y, and z first! But it's been merged, and pushed to main. And you can't force push; you'd have to let everyone else know, so they can handle their local

SPM, Github, internal dependencies & SSH auth

Ever tried using Swift Package Manager with dependencies hosted on Github while using SSH? And resolving subdependencies when adding a SPM package through Xcode? Still having nightmare about it? Dry your tears and cry no more: you've come to the right place.

Types are nice: recursive types, in Swift

What's a recursive type, what is it useful for, and how can we implement and use one in Swift? Let's find out!

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