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We’ve all been through it: staring blankly at a pull request description that simply says “fixes stuff,” wondering which branch is production, and praying that our half-baked local script doesn’t accidentally wipe out the staging environment. Welcome to Old Lane 17, where we prefer our terminal workflows lean, our Git history clean, and our GitHub automation doing the heavy lifting so we can get back to drinking coffee before it gets cold.
Let’s face it—over-engineered enterprise CI/CD pipelines can feel like assembling a spaceship just to go to the grocery store. You don’t need a 400-step YAML configuration to ship good code. You just need a few sharp habits, the GitHub CLI (gh), and a branch protection strategy that stops you from breaking master on a Friday afternoon.
1. Ditch the Browser: Master the GitHub CLI
Clicking around the GitHub web interface to open a pull request is the digital equivalent of using a mouse to write code. It’s slow, tedious, and breaks your terminal flow.
Instead, install the GitHub CLI and do everything from where
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