Posts tagged git
My Unsolicited Opinions on Tidy Git Repositories
- 11 April 2021
Today, I will attempt to list some of the key components of a “good” public git repository that make me feel warm and fuzzy when I see them.
When you publish open source projects to the internet, you are contributing your ideas, expressed in code, to the world. However, that code should not be anything more than that. It is so easy to accidentally release information about yourself by simply adding everything by default in a directory to your repository or by including the wrong configuration files. I recommend using git add . sparingly. You can easily leak to the world the type of operating system you use, the type of deployment solution you use and its configuration, and much more.