Git is a powerful version control system for which you only need a few commands to get your daily tasks done. However, Git can do a lot more – but those commands are hard to remember and when you use them wrong, you may mess up your repository. You can find many great resources to …
NDC Oslo keeps growing. This year you could choose from 19 pre-conference workshops and attend one of 10 parallel tracks throughout the 3 days of the conference. The mix of well-established speakers and newcomers was very interesting and nearly 2500 attendees found their way to the Oslo Spektrum. My biggest challenge this year was to …
With every commit you do, Git not only registers the change in your code, but marks you as the author of this change as well. It uses the settings user.name and user.email to create an entry like this one in the log:
|
1 2 3 4 |
commit aeaeb9e927592e907ae1a7f5c381876e05109a80 Author: John Doe <john@doe.org> Date: Mon Jun 10 20:11:11 2019 +0200 Your commit message |
As long as you use Git only to manage your source code, …
Over the last weeks I run in to constant login problems with my Git repositories hosted in Azure DevOps. One day everything works, the next day I cannot connect. I seems as if Microsoft is pushing more actively the move to personal access tokens and the older approach with alternate credentials comes to an end. …
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) offers a very useful but well-hidden feature: you can have more than one code repository per project. What seams not that interesting can help you to separate code with a different lifecycle and reduce your administrative work. Let’s have a look on how you can use this feature. Create …
Git diff does its best to figure out if it can show you the differences in a file. However, sometimes this does not work – even when the file you are interested in is a text file. We use the UCS 2 character set for DbUp and Git believes that those are binary files. The …
Certain questions about a project can only be found in the source repository. The commit messages contain details on how your code was developed that you probably nowhere else have documented. The same is true if you want to know how many commits where made in a branch. If you work with release branches (where …
The .gitignore file is a great help to ignore certain types of files (like *.exe or *.dll). A little entry in this file and you no longer need to remember only to check in the files you really need but not the other ones. However, there are situations in which you need to add files …