Tag Archives: git

Couring GIT output

Posted on 03/01/2015 by dariusz.cieslak

Default git colour setup is not so good. On black terminal background it looks dark: However, with small change in ~/.git/config file: [color "diff"] meta = yellow bold frag = magenta bold old = red bold new = green bold … Continue reading →

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Git local stashes minimal browser

Posted on 27/08/2013 by dariusz.cieslak

Stash mechanism (sometimes it's called "shelve" – in bazaar for example) is responsible for holding your local changes aside from remote branch. You can save your current work state, switch to different version and restore it later. In order to … Continue reading →

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GIT hooks: commit-msg to enforce commit rules

Posted on 04/01/2012 by dariusz.cieslak

Recently I forgot to add #reviewthis directive for modifications of codebase that belongs to team A. And a subtle bug was introduced that way. Ops! I agreed earlier that all changes done to moduleB should be passed to a reviewer … Continue reading →

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Bazaar to GIT migration

Posted on 17/10/2011 by dariusz.cieslak

Today I've moved using site-uptime.net development from Bazaar repository to GIT using elegant bzr2git script. The why: In-place branches (I used to use them heavily) Faster (no Python libs loading during "cold" start) Can't live without "git rebase -i" now … Continue reading →

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Fixing invalid comment / branch name in GIT

Posted on 15/09/2011 by dariusz.cieslak

Recently I was asked to help with fixing branch that had: invalid name (wrong artifact number) invalid comment inside (also based on wrong artifact number) it was a mistake and programmer wanted to preserve changes done on branch, but using … Continue reading →

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