Technology

Using git diff feature on Github

Hi Folks, Recently I came across a cool way to compare differences between two branches, two tags, or between two commits on Github. Many a times in our project we have to thoroughly see what has been a specific change in the code base before we push it on our production branch. Here is how you can view the differences in commits: On...

by Abhishek Tejpaul
Tag: git hub
07-Jun-2011

Technology

Creating a New Git Branch on the Local Machine and Pushing it to a Remote

Our project went into production a few weeks back and was on Grails 1.3.1. Since the code was stable, we decided that it was time to upgrade to grails 1.3.4. However, we didn't want to push it straight to the QA Server or Production server because that would've meant that the maintenance of the existing production code would become a...

by Vivek Krishna
Tag: git hub
09-Sep-2010

Technology

Git Stash : A very useful command

We have been using GitHub for version control in one of our projects and I am absolutely loving it! There are quite many advantages over a concurrent version control system like subversion. One of the commands I found useful was the stash command. It is of use when we are working on a piece of functionality, which is not in a state to...

by Vivek Krishna
Tag: git hub
31-Aug-2010