Sort files in a directory by modification time in Git

Readul Hasan Chayan [Heemayl] — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:39:06 GMT

Recently, I had a sort of unusual requirement to get the last modified file (tracked by git) in a certain directory for a specific branch. I tried to look for any existing porcelain or plumbing command in git that can be used to advantage, but couldn't find anything, so had to stitch up something combining several utilities.

Here's how it looks eventually:

Prevent editor invocation on `git pull` or `git merge`

Readul Hasan Chayan [Heemayl] — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 07:27:47 GMT

While doing git pull or git merge, if it's a mechanical merge (i.e. not a fast-forward merge), git invokes the configured editor with an auto-generated merge commit message to give more flexibility to explain the merge. But the invocation of an interactive editor breaks the CI/CD workflow, hence we need something that can automatically save the merge commit with the auto-generated message without invoking the editor (given that's fine with your use case).

git provides an environment variable to make this easier -- GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT. We can run git pull (or git merge) with the value of this environment variable set to no i.e.:

Readul Hasan Chayan [Heemayl] (Posts about git)

Sort files in a directory by modification time in Git

Prevent editor invocation on `git pull` or `git merge`