HeyJaredAndrew Nesbitt
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Git Submodules as a Package Manager (opens the original)
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I added a worktree to a repository last week to try a branch alongside the main checkout, ran git submodule update --init in it because the build needed the vendored dependencies, and when I was done went to clean up with git worktree remove, which git refused. Per the man page only clean worktrees can be removed, and “unclean worktrees or ones with submodules” need --force. Submodules get their own clause in that sentence, distinct from dirty state. git worktree move is stricter again and refus
Interview with a Maintainer (opens the original)
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The following is a transcript of episode 214 of Green Squares, a podcast about building in public and staying green. It has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Transcription by OpenClaw-4.2. TYLER: Welcome back to Green Squares, I’m Tyler. Longtime listeners know I came up doing Proof of Work, rest in peace, and one thing I carried over from that show is a belief that the most interesting people in tech are the ones holding up infrastructure you’ve never heard of. You’ve all seen the xkc
–end-of-options (opens the original)
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I was reading through the fix for a package manager CVE last week and ran into a git flag I’d somehow never noticed: --end-of-options. My first reaction was that some LLM had hallucinated it, but it’s documented in gitcli(7), it was added in git 2.24.0 in November 2019, and it exists because git had already used -- for something else. In most Unix tools -- marks the end of option parsing, so rm -- -f removes a file called -f rather than passing the force flag. Git had repurposed -- early on to s
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