💡: Curated Git quick references

📌 Push local code to GitHub

git init                                                            # Initializes new Git repo
git add .                                                           # Stages all new files in working directory
git commit -m "Initial commit: AI-powered decision support app"     # Snapshots staged files with a commit comment
git branch -M main                                                  # Renames current branch as main
git remote add origin https://github.com/Hefrock/the-tiebreaker.git # Links local to remote repo with "origin" nickname
git push -u origin main                                             # Upload local data to remote repo

🔀: Rebase Sync Routine

• This is helpful when collaborating when changes were made on the remote main repo. If our local version is behind main, we can catch up.

git fetch origin                  # Downloads the latest branches and history from remote
git checkout main                 # Switches to the target branch
git pull origin main              # Pulls the latest updates to your local main
git checkout feature/new-feature  # Returns to your working branch
git rebase main                   # Integrates remote changes onto your branch

❄️ Pull remote repo and build into local working directory

• This is a useful routine for iterative local build testing

cd ~/dotfiles                                               # Change to flake directory
git pull origin claude/testing-branch                       # Pull remote branch into local working directory
sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake ~/dotfiles#laptop         # Nix code to build & switch

🧪 Test out remote repo before building

• Can test in realtime without creating another NixOS generation. Does not persist on reboot!

cd ~/dotfiles                                              # Go to the flake repo 
git fetch origin                                           # pull remote refs into local repo; working tree untouched
git checkout claude/antigravity-class-lockdown             # switch working tree to that branch (windowrules.nix now has the narrowed regex)
sudo nixos-rebuild test --flake .#laptop                   # build/activate NixOS configuration NOW; not persisted across reboot
hyprctl reload                                             # re-read hyprland.conf (HM repointed the symlink during activation)
antigravity                                                # launch Antigravity IDE; Hyprland matches its class against the new rule on window-map