Ben Nadel shared his “opinionated” Git…

Tom McFarlin reminded me recently about a site that shows how you could write Git commit messages and why it matters. I’m guilty of this at times, when I have to fight against being a little lazy in my messages, especially in a long project.

I loved these charts from Yoav Farhi on the “half-life” of WordPress code. The charts were generated from scrips authored by Erik Bernhardsson that he used to analyze Git projects. They show WordPress’s growth (by lines of code) over the years.

Sal Ferrarello has shared a super in-depth and well explained sample .gitignore file that will help you avoid several common pitfalls working with Git and WordPress.