Technology

Git Bisect : Find that DAMN Commit!!!

While working on a project with a team, there is a chance that once in a while erroneous pieces of code (bad programming, wrong conflict resolution etc) creep in. Now wading thorugh individual commits looking for a specific line in a file that looks suspicious can be hard work and takes a lot of time. I was in one of these...

by Manoj Mohan
Tag: VCS
24-Sep-2012

Technology

GIT … Lighten up a Bit

Hello there .. Writing my first blog , I am still amazed by the effectiveness of working with Git . No matter how many times you mess up.. you can  still end up with a Clean Working directory. (Believe me .. ;)  ) .  I have also heard about the frustrating merge situations people have been in .. but I guess it has more to do with...

by Manoj Mohan
Tag: VCS
15-Feb-2011

Technology

Fetching an old deleted file of a project using Git

Recently in one of my projects, I had to bring the content of old-forgotten-deleted file back to the application code base using Git. The problem took a 'fancy' turn as the path to the file was no more a valid path in Git as there had been a major refactorings in our project esp. renaming of the packages as well as the folder structure...

by Abhishek Tejpaul
Tag: VCS
15-Nov-2010