Recently, I had to migrate one of the git repository from our local git server to Github along with all the branches, tags etc. Since ours is a big project and with many branches, adding second remote and pushing master branch was not an option. And with Git it’s a very simple three step process. […]
Working on a cool project, doing cool and unusual stuff has its own charms and challenges. For doing cool things, you need cool tools to play with and Git surely is one of the coolest ones around. One of the many powerful features of git is rebase. While working on a large project, you almost always […]
Since Git is awesome. It also provides functionality of making aliases. Example [shell]git config –global alias.co checkout [/shell] Here we created co as an alias for checkout (All the aliases that are created goes into .gitconfig file under home folder). Now to checkout a branch named testBranch, We can also write [shell]git co testBranch Switched […]
Since we use git numerous times a day over and over, hence needs maintenance. There are few commands that will help you to keep our git healthy. If you feel that you git has somewhat slowed down, these would do the trick for you. Since ours is a pretty big project . I run it […]
While working on Git with a big team, there are chances that a situation might arise when you want to set some other branch as master branch.Recently we were in a same situation. Several of branches were merged to master branch. And unfortunately one of the branches merged was created from an unstable branch. Making […]
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 […]
This post is for people who are already familiar with Git and work on multiple branches (esp. feature branches). By practice, feature branches are the branches created from a root branch (master or any other as per your branching model) and once feature is complete/tested – they are merged back into the same root branch. […]
git log is one of most useful commands to see information about commit , author , date and subject(comment) while using GIT.This displays information in blocks and hardly 5 – 7 can be listed on normal screen size. But git provides –pretty option , so that we can format the output of git log; Here […]
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 […]
