Writing code is only one small piece of being a developer. In order to be efficient and capable at our jobs, we must also excel at debugging. When I dedicate some time to learning new debugging skills, I often find I can move much quicker, and add more value to the teams I work on. I have a few tips and tricks I rely on pretty heavily and found that I give the same advice again and again during workshops, so here’s a compilation of some of them, as well as some from the community. We’ll start with some core tenets and then drill down to more specific examples.

Debugging Tips and Tricks


# Rename your local branch. If you are on the branch to rename:
git branch -m branch-new-name

# Delete the old-name remote branch and push the new-name local branch.
git push origin :branch-old-name branch-new-name

# Reset the upstream branch for the new-name local branch.
git push origin -u branch-new-name


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