After my last post, I decided to dive into our Gitlab setup and see if I could fix the problem. In case you’ve forgotten, the problem was the latest pushed code was broken. So, our master branch was pointing to code that was not working when pulled and deployed. The pushed code had changes to the gradle and build setup, not java code, so that’s why it was pretty broken. None of us know git all that well (but let’s be honest, who does?) so it has taken us a little while to remedy our setup.

I dove in and fixed it learning a lot about git in the process. I basically had to create a bunch of temporary branches with my current working code and rewrite history — basically making it look like the last changes had never happened. I set the origin/master branch to my working code with changes.

After this debacle, we decided that we should be using branches more often, keeping the origin/master branch for production, working, thoroughly tested code.