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My notes from some of the sessions I attended.

My notes from some of the sessions I attended, from hallway conversations and the schedule.

Imagine yourself working on a PHP code base distributed between two or more Git repositories, for example a library and an application part. Ideally, the two repositories should be independent, but sometimes that lofty goal can’t be achieved. And having two repositories open in your editor and doing git commit, git push, composer update all the time becomes tedious. This article shows how to work faster with two dependent PHP code bases.

Your Git commit logs provide a good approximation of your habits and time zone: When you sleep, if you are working full time, which projects are private and and which are work-related (weekend vs workday commits), when you go to lunch, etc. By setting the environment variables GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE before committing, you can change the recorded time of a commit. But always setting those variables before committing becomes tedious, so I experimented with a shell function that sets the environment variables for me.