Category Archives: git

Web Development Stack In OSX

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Derick Bailey

It has been almost a month since I ventured out into contracting and took up OSX on a Macbook Pro as my primary operating system. In that time, I’ve been very fortunate to have Joey Beninghove guide me through the … Continue reading →

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Code Review with Git Patches and Outlook via PowerShell

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

In the spirit of “simplest thing that works,” my team has a rather low-fidelity approach to code reviews: patch files and e-mail. Nothing fancy, but we find it works rather well. It’s even easier thanks to git format-patch, which lets … Continue reading →

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Better git-svn Through Aliases: git up & git dci

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

I’ve been using git-svn for almost a year now, and have settled on a low-friction workflow that has been working really well. First, a few notes about how I work with Git and Subversion… For the most part, we avoid … Continue reading →

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Replicating My OSX Terminal In Win7 with Git Bash (MinGW32) and Pik

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Derick Bailey

After getting my OSX Terminal prompt all set up and loving it, I decided I wanted to have the same basic prompt in my Win7 virtual machine when I use a Git Bash (MinGW32) shell w/ MSysGit. Here’s what I … Continue reading →

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Extending GitHub Issues

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Joshua Flanagan

The problem My team recently decided to experiment with using the Issues feature of our private Github repository. We’ve avoided a bug tracking tool for a long time, but this one seemed just lightweight enough that it was worth a … Continue reading →

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View files on GitHub from Visual Studio

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Joshua Flanagan

My favorite way to view the history of a file in git is via the GitHub website. It gives me all the information I need, with convenient hyperlinks to to additional information. However, it was never easy to go from … Continue reading →

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Git-Achievements in PowerShell

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

Reading through Jason’s post on using Git-Achievements with msysGit, I couldn’t help but get it working with PowerShell. The result is a single PowerShell script added to my Git-Achievements repository, tagged here on the off chance I decided to upload … Continue reading →

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msysGit error setting certificate verify locations

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

I had never had any problems using msysGit with SSL until last night, when I came across the following error: $ git pull Password: error: error setting certificate verify locations: CAfile: /bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt CApath: none while accessing https://dahlbyk@github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git.git/info/refs fatal: HTTP request … Continue reading →

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Git-Achievements on Windows

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Jason Meridth

UPDATE: Needed to add newly clone git-achievements to your PATH env variable.  Otherwise it will push an index.html file to your current repo and not the git-achievements repo.  Thank you Adam for finding that. IMPORTANT: Make sure you save your … Continue reading →

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Use gitk to understand git – merge and rebase

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Joshua Flanagan

This is the second part of my Use gitk to understand git post. In my initial overview, I demonstrated creating a branch, making a couple commits to that branch, and then merging them back into master. In that scenario, there … Continue reading →

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