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ADHD tip of the week: Renaming git branches

(Just a small one this time, already spent the evening fixing the outdated crap!) The problem One of the worst things for my ADHD brain is the context switch between feature branches. They’re loads of busy work, normally in Jira/AzureDevops/whatever to get the ticket name/branchname sorted and it fuckin’wrecks my brain. I usually end up with all my changes floating, uncommitted, in main, awaiting me to find the branch name I need to move them over in a checkout. That, or buried in a stash when I just wanna code. ...

February 17, 2026 · 1 min · 177 words · Me