Whenever you make changes to a bunch of files already tracked by git, there’s an easy way to add them without adding untracked files. The command is: git add –update or git add -u That’s it!
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Pycon Africa 2020 took place on August 4 to 8 of 2020. I had the privilege of giving a talk at this conference. I knew that I wouldn’t be able to give my talk live, so I sent the organisers a recording of the talk that I had made a few days before. I hadn’t
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In August 2019 I attended PyCon Africa in Ghana. I enjoyed the conference a lot because I got to meet many people I had only seen online. I wrote a re-cap article on Real Python about the conference and some of the talks I attended. You can read the article on Real Python.
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