git: No bad puns in title
Regular readers will already know that my current employer recently switched from Subversion to Git for version control. Many people are making such a switch, and Git is definitely the “cool new kid”...
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How remote branches work in Git
One of the things that confuses many new git users is how branches work between a local repository and a remote. This is always something I have to explain in my git training classes, so I figure that...
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Stupid git tricks
This is the first in an ongoing series of posts about basic and not so basic ways to use git. Many of these come from a wiki page I maintain at work, with the examples changed to use the git repository...
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Some handy information and tips about Git branching • Tracking branches: “I just cloned a repository and all I see is ‘master’ — but there are many other branches in this repository, and I need to work...
View ArticleMy Favorite Things, Part 2: Git accessories
Git is definitely one of my favorite things but I already wrote about it, so I decided to write about some of the git add-ons that make my life easier. They are: gitosis, gitX, gitweb, and {OpenGrok....
View ArticleStupid Git Tricks #3: A few words about merging
Fast-forward merges There’s a notion that’s actually in all version control systems, but which is more readily apparent in git, namely, the so-called “fast-forward” merge. Charles Duan offers this...
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Stupid Git Tricks #4: Pushing and pulling
You should almost never have to do a push of the form $ git push origin something:somewhere This is a good way to accidentally create a branch on the remote that you didn’t mean to, which an admin then...
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