SourceTree - Delete Multiple Branches at One Time

Thu, 10 Dec 2015 02:14:19 +0000

Do you use SourceTree to help manage your Git repos? Ever work on a bunch of pull requests and have a lot of local branches you need to delete? I found a way to delete multiple branches at one time.

Click Repository then click Branch.

Click Delete Branches.

Select the branch(es) you want to delete. Be sure not to select other than Local branches unless that's your intention.

Checking in CocoaPods files

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 19:53:25 +0000

I've gone back and forth on the debate with whether or not we should be checking in the dependencies for a project supplied by CocoaPods. In the past I felt it was best to only check in the Podfile and maybe the lock file. I believe I've finally made a decision with recent experiences and my development practices with Git.

I'm checking in the whole effing workspace.

Why?

Every branch, especially master, should be compilable and archivable up to a point.
- Caveat 1: Xcode is a piece of shit sometimes and will break things because it can between versions.
- Caveat 2: Provisioning Profiles.
CocoaPods is a well-maintained tool, however, Specs are a crap-shoot.
- Specs can disappear.
- Specs can be unofficially maintained.
- Specs can be wrong.
Checking in your Pods directory ensures the best possible snapshot of the pre-binary code.
- Forcing a pod install every time someone checks out code doesn't ensure the same state of code is maintained for testing bugs in previous versions.
- You may decide to drop Pods support and forget how to use it.
- Wouldn't it be nice to do diffs on your dependency classes?
Xcode Bots doesn't work well enough yet with CocoaPods for me to want to install Pods every build
- I'm also not sold on Xcode Bots itself - it's quite unreliable and likes to smoke my server's CPU.
- CocoaPods needs to not be a hinderance - its pretty innocuous when the risky work (installing Pods) is done and checked in.

That sums up my thoughts. I primarily work on WordPress for iOS which is a heavily forked and contributed to repository. I don't think the project could be a success with the amount of branching and pull requests performed if we didn't check in the Pods directory.

Git on The Dangling Pointer

SourceTree - Delete Multiple Branches at One Time

Checking in CocoaPods files