With the .gitignore file we can tell Git to ignore certain types of files (like *.exe) or whole folders. All it takes is an entry like this if we want to ignore the folder database:
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As explained in another post, we can ignore the .gitignore by putting a ! in front of the entry. …
Your Git repository is a treasure trove of data about your project. Every commit you make tells a part of the story of your project. Would it not be great to run some analysis on it to see hidden pattern or learn about the dynamics at work? This post is part of my journey to …
If your code works on the Continuous Integration (CI) server but not on your local machine, you may have a problem in the files not tracked by Git. And since Git does not track them, there is no easy way to get rid of them – at least in most Git clients. In such cases, …
At the user group site, we use GitVersion to turn our git history into a Semantic Version number. After we switched to main as the default branch, our build failed with this error message: ERROR [****] An unexpected error occurred: System.InvalidOperationException: Could not find a ‘develop’ or ‘master’ branch, neither locally nor remotely. GitVersion did …
If you commit a file to a Git repository, it stays there forever. Even when you remove it, Git keeps it around in the .git folder – otherwise you could not go back to a version where this file was part of your project. The Problem At the beginning of our user group site …
When you use the File Explorer (or Windows Explorer) to move files around in your repository, Git knows nothing about that action and treats your files as deleted and newly created: We can commit that change, but that makes it impossible to see the history of those files before this commit. We could prevent that …
I use GitHub Desktop since it was called GitHub for Windows. In those 8 years I never had problems with this Git client – at least until a few days ago where nothing worked at all. It started as I tried to push to one of my Git repositories at GitHub. Instead of synchronising my …
Over the last weeks I had a lot of problems with Git credentials in combination with Azure DevOps. Whenever I worked with a repository, my Git client asked for username and password. It got so annoying that I started to switch to SSH authentication and since then that problem never showed up again. I focus …
Git tracks the author of every commit. If you do not modify anything, the global settings will be used. That is great for the day-to-day use, but it may not be what you want in all situations. If you do pair-programming, you may want to make the commits as a team. If you commit your …
Sometimes your Git repositories move to another location. You certainly can throw your local copy away and clone it from the new location. However, there is a simpler way that only requires you to update the remote URL and you can continue with your local copy – including all your unpushed changes. Before you make …