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The best Version Control newsletters

5 newsletters, ranked by editorial quality and how recently they published. Looking for something more specific? Search instead.

beardedprogrammer.com· irregular· Published 28 days ago

A personal programming blog-style newsletter with long-form posts on software testing fundamentals, git workflows and quirky language internals like obfuscated perl. Readers get conversational, opinionated explanations built around concrete scenarios and worked examples.

software testingepistemologygitmerge conflictssquash mergeperl
blog.git-init.com· irregular· Inactive for over a year

A practical blog for developers who want to get more from Git, with tutorials on context switching with stash and worktree, debugging regressions with git bisect, and explaining merge versus rebase through worked examples and animations. Readers come away with concrete commands and mental models they can apply to everyday version-control work.

git bisectgit rebasegit mergegit stashgit worktreecontext switching
enumerator.ghost.io· weekly· Published 11 months ago

A developer's blog on working with Claude Code, covering safe permission settings and version-control workflows using jj and plain git. Posts give concrete configuration snippets and step-by-step processes drawn from the author's own experimentation.

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codecoupled.org· irregular· Inactive for over a year

Codecoupled is a personal essay series by a developer, 'Strong Opinions, Moderately Held', arguing for specific software engineering practices such as verbose commit messages, squashing feature branches, and skepticism toward code comments. Each issue makes a clear, reasoned case for one opinion and anticipates objections.

gitcommit messagessquash commitscode commentsgit rebaseverbose commit
neil-bagchi.com· irregular· Inactive for over a year

A Power BI and Microsoft Fabric practitioner's blog-style newsletter offering step-by-step guides on setting up a free Azure sandbox, applying Git source control to Power BI projects, and managing report lifecycles. It is useful for data analysts and engineers who want hands-on setup instructions for the Microsoft BI stack.

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