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New comment by cerved in "Local Git remotes"

cerved — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:20:16 +0000

ofc if you're running AI agents in YOLO mode — clones means you don't need to worry that Sonnet is going to see your .git/index.lock file and go "this is blocking me, let's rm -f this" and corrupt all your work that you never bothered pushing

New comment by cerved in "Local Git remotes"

cerved — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:00:53 +0000

Worktrees effectively share the entire state of the repo. Only limitation is that a branch can only be checked out in one repo at a time.

Clones only share the immutable object store

For most practical uses of same repo checking out different branches locally, worktrees are better.

The nice thing about clones is that you can have a backup clone, a wip clone, a review clone where you don't clutter the amount of local branch refs

New comment by cerved in "Local Git remotes"

cerved — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:29:10 +0000

Doesn't work. You need to mount both the worktree and the repo which defeats the point

New comment by cerved in "Local Git remotes"

cerved — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:46:12 +0000

you can also setup a local remote which hardlinks the index so it doesn't occupy more space. Why? Idk. You don't want to share stash, rerere-cache, branches whatever.

Also handy if you're running an agent in a container on the local fs. Set up a local clone, contain the agent to that repo folder and have it hack away on that. Later, you step out of the container and do the syncing. You can't use worktrees in this situations.

Bare repos are also pretty cool. You can clone the git mailing list as a bare repo and search for threads there instead of setting up an mbox (same for the kernel obviously)

New comment by cerved in "Stop Advertising in Your Commits"

cerved — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:00:20 +0000

Fwiw you can create your own trailers

    Yolo-Slopped-By: Sonnet-4.5

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-interpret-trailers

New comment by cerved in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

cerved — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:19:43 +0000

if you want to reason about language correctness you are better off using linters, compilers and things like fuzzing

> the trend is AI also does the code review

please no. Keep at least four eyes on all code you ship

New comment by cerved in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

cerved — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:13:52 +0000

Anthropic obviously vibe code everything and it shows

New comment by cerved in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

cerved — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:27:32 +0000

You use gh to interact with the forge, git to interact with the repo.

For example

  gh pr checks --watch

will run and poll the CI checks of a PR and exit 0 once they all pass

New comment by cerved in "A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses"

cerved — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:47:28 +0000

> Starlink Consumer Broadband at $380B (9.2M subscribers, ~38x revenue)

I mean that Starlinks consumer broadband is valued at ~38x revenue, when other telcos are valued around 1.5x revenue. That revenue is 2533% more expensive, why pay such a big premium for something that's essentially the same?

New comment by cerved in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

cerved — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:03:27 +0000

Anthropic should run it on their own code

New comment by cerved in "The future of version control"

cerved — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:26:24 +0000

not strictly speaking, but in practice it's the tip of the remote default branch

New comment by cerved in "A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses"

cerved — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:10:54 +0000

For $380B you can get both AT&T and Verizon and you pay ~1.55x the revenue. Why pay 38x for Starlink?

New comment by cerved in "The future of version control"

cerved — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:49:21 +0000

Tip, you may want to use origin/HEAD over origin/master

New comment by cerved in "The future of version control"

cerved — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:43:01 +0000

It does

New comment by cerved in "Autoresearch for SAT Solvers"

cerved — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:22:58 +0000

Would me be nice to try this on lcg (CP-SAT) solvers

New comment by cerved in "Claude Code's binary reveals silent A/B tests on core features"

cerved — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:02:43 +0000

Is the a b test tired to the installation or the user?

New comment by cerved in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

cerved — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:42:03 +0000

I instruct Claude to write like peff, writes much better commit messages now

New comment by cerved in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

cerved — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:07:49 +0000

If only the streaming giants would let us stream in decent quality..

New comment by cerved in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

cerved — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:31:45 +0000

So it does a forced reset of the dirt after each bash command? Does it confuse Claude? I frequently find it lacks path awareness of what it's working directory is

New comment by cerved in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

cerved — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:10:47 +0000

Hey Boris, can you teach CC how to use cd?