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Conventional Branch 1.1.0 Released—Official Support for AI Coding Agent Branch Prefixes

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Conventional Branch specification receives its first major update. Version 1.1.0 adds support for AI Coding Agent branch prefixes (ai/, copilot/, cursor/, claude/, codex/), and provides a machine-readable spec.json and agent registry, making the specification useful not only for humans but also for tools.

Conventional Branch Specification One-Year Anniversary — From Zero to Global Developer Adoption

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

12K+ visits, multilingual translations, and global developer adoption—the journey of the Conventional Branch specification’s first year

Enhancing Code Traceability — Automatically Including PR Descriptions in Git Commits

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Leverage Bitbucket’s Commit Message Templates feature to automatically write PR descriptions into Git commit messages, ensuring crucial information isn’t lost with tool changes.

Conventional Branch Specification Released!

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This article introduces the Conventional Branch specification, which provides a structured naming convention for Git branches to enhance readability and collaboration.

Programmer's Self-Cultivation — Git Commit Message and Branch Creation Conventions (Tools)

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Tue, 09 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This article introduces how to use the Commit Check tool to verify whether Git commit messages, branch names, committer usernames, and committer email addresses conform to specifications.

How to create GPG keys and add to GitHub

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This article explains how to create GPG keys, export the public key, and add it to GitHub for signing commits.

Reliably Unforking a GitHub Repository Without Deletion and Reconstruction

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This article describes how to separate a forked repository from its parent repository using GitHub Support, avoiding data loss from deletion and reconstruction, and helping developers better manage forked repositories.

Solving Two Git Clone Failure Issues on AIX

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This article documents two issues encountered when using Jenkins for Git clone on AIX and their solutions, including dependent library loading failure and SSH authentication failure.

Resolving Git Large Repository Download Failures on AIX by Removing File Resource Limits

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Resolving Git large repository download failures on AIX due to file size limits by modifying ulimit settings.

Branch Naming Convention

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Thu, 13 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This article introduces the conventional branch naming specification, including the purpose of branch names, key points, and basic rules for naming branches in Git. It also provides examples of branch prefixes and their meanings.

These settings in Bitbucket/GitHub recommends enable

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Provides a list of recommended settings for Bitbucket and GitHub repositories, including enabling force push rejection, branch protection, tag management, merge checks, and commit message standards.

git sparse-checkout enable and disable

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This article explains how to enable and disable git sparse-checkout, including examples of how to configure sparse-checkout for specific directories and how to reset it.

Programmer's Self-Cultivation — Git Commit Message and Branch Creation Conventions

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This article introduces how to formulate and implement Git commit message and branch creation conventions to improve code quality and team collaboration efficiency.

How to Slim Down Your Git Repository

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

How to remove unnecessary files and history from a Git repository to reduce its size, providing two methods using BFG Repo Cleaner or git filter-branch.

Git History Statistics Generator

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

GitStats, a Git history statistics generation tool written in Python, can generate detailed code submission statistical reports to help developers analyze project activity and contributor information.

Resolving the "Could not read from remote repository" Issue

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Resolving the “Could not read from remote repository” error encountered when cloning code using Git, analyzing the causes, and providing solutions.

Git Commit Squash

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

How to squash multiple Git commits into a single commit, both locally and remotely, using interactive rebase and merge strategies in Bitbucket.