Timestamped Git yolo commits (#snippet)

Kyle Shevlin blogged about his belief in detailed atomic commits at work. On the contrary, he changes entire projects with a single commit in side projects. I feel you, Kyle.

To improve the side hustle commit chaos, Kyle added a make command called checkpoint to at least occasionally add progress to version control.

I have the same YOLO commit traits and, of course, I love this approach!

But I don't use make, so I created a more general solution as a custom Git command.

A git-yolo shell file now defines my new git yolo command that's based on Kyle's original script.

#!/usr/bin/env sh

echo "🚀 You only live once, right?"
echo ""
git add -A
git commit -m "yoloing at $(date '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M')"
git push
echo ""
echo "⬆️  Yolo Checkpoint created and pushed to remote."

As a result, whenever I don't feel like (or don't care about) maintaining a clean Git history — git yolo will do the job.

$ git yolo
🚀 You only live once, right?

[main 23c80e0] yoloing at 2024-03-30T08:22
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 fo
...
...

⬆️  Yolo Checkpoint created and pushed to remote

The Git history will then include some "yolo checkpoints" — at least.

$ git log 

commit 23c80e... (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: stefan judis <stefanjudis@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Mar 30 08:22:07 2024 +0100

    yoloing at 2024-03-30T08:22

commit 53yd07... (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: stefan judis <stefanjudis@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Mar 30 08:10:23 2024 +0100

    yoloing at 2024-03-30T08:10

Nice nice!