Tobias Günther

The world of software development offers an infinite amount of ways to mess up: deleting the wrong things, coding into dead ends, littering commit messages with typos, are a mere few of the plentitude.
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​​Fortunately, however, we have a wonderful safety net under our feet in the form of Git when we’re working with version control. Not that you and I need a safety net, of course, because we never make mistakes, right? Sure, sure. But for the benefit … Read article “The Smart Ways to Correct Mistakes in Git”

Most people wouldn’t call version control their hobby. But in the last few years, people have also become aware of how valuable it is. Nowadays, you won’t find a top programmer, web developer, or web designer who doesn’t use version control. In part because it helps you produce better results and makes collaboration easy. But also because it can save your life when things go wrong.

When we started out creating Tower in 2010, we had a goal clearly … Read article “Tower 2.0 is Here – To Make Git Easy!”

Everybody has a list of things they don’t like: an appointment at the dentist, a traffic jam, or a canceled flight. When I was preparing my book, I wasn’t surprised that a lot of designers and developers would add merge conflicts to this list without hesitation.

When using Git for version control, there is nothing to fear. Once you understand how merge conflicts work and how to deal with them, I’m sure you’ll be able to cross them off … Read article “How to Deal with Merge Conflicts in Git”