dep is a dependency management tool for golang. If you have done any software development before, dep is similar to npm, pod or pip. In simple words, it is a package manager to manage your project’s third party libraries.
How to install it There’s a few ways to install dep. Personally I prefer to install it with Homebrew
$~ brew install dep Initializing a project with dep To initialize it in your go project, go to your project directory and run the following
A quick one. Here’s how to change your git branch name:
If you want to rename of your current local branch:
git branch -m new-branch-name If you want to change the name of a different local branch
git branch -m old-branch new-branch-name That’s it. Bye.
I tend to forget that I have to specify the current branch name when pushing it to a remote. For example:
$~ git push or like this
$~ git push -u origin Either way, these commands tend to fail when I haven’t yet set the upstream branch. git will return an error similar like this:
fatal: The current branch develop has no upstream branch. To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use git push --set-upstream origin <INSERT BRANCH NAME HERE> To avoid this, I have to set the upstream branch name explicitly first before pushing it to the remote repository.
I prefer zsh over bash as my everyday shell. Unfortunately zsh is not the default shell on macOS.
To make it as a default shell for your machine, simply do the following:
1. Install zsh Make sure zsh is available on your system. If not, install it with brew.
$~ brew install zsh $~ which zsh /usr/local/bin/zsh #output 2. Set zsh as default shell To set is as default shell, run the following in your terminal:
I find it quite hard to make sense of the output from git diff. Let’s just say that it is somewhat off-putting. diff-so-fancy is an open source project to solve this problem and help make your diff much less uglier.
Installation There are a lot of ways to install it but I prefer to install all my tools with Brew. So run the following in your terminal:
$~ brew install diff-so-fancy Configuration To use diff-so-fancy, you have to set it up globally.
To view the changes between your latest git pull
$~ git pull origin $~ git diff @{1}.. @{n} means the n-th previous value of HEAD. You can refer the official docs on reflog Shortnames for more.
p/s: I am currently trying to dissociate myself from becoming too dependent on SourceTree for daily git operations.
I would consider that I am a beginner at unit testing but these days, I started writing it much more frequently and I am quite proud of it. I noticed that it actually helps me to notice regression early on and as well as helps me to understand how the components work together.
I also learned ‘the hard way’ how hard it is to start writing unit tests for an existing project that have 0 unit test.
I learned about Go examples and benchmarks today. They are parts of Go default package testing.
Examples Go Examples are executed just like tests They are compiled and optionally executed as part of unit tests It resides in the package *_test.go files Structure func ExampleRepeat() { repeated := Repeated("x", 5) fmt.Println(repeated) // output: xxxxx } Rules Function name must be prefix with Example It must have // output: result How to Use to run the test with example, use: go test -v Sample Execution $ go test -v === RUN TestRepeat --- PASS: TestRepeat (0.