Tag: git
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Search git branch names using command line
Looking for a particular branch, and `git branch -a` returns a LOT of branches? If on Windows, you could use the Search feature in cmder (you’re using cmder, right?) Or on mac, cmd+f and then search the outputted text… OR you could use one of these two approaches: 1) git branch takes a `–list` argument , which in…
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Search for a branch with git
Got a load of branches? Need to find a specific one? Try this git branch –all | grep <query> for example git branch –all | grep notifications Will return all branches (remote or local) that contain “notifications” in the name of the branch
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Github name squatting policy bullshit
I’ve been a loyal customer of GitHub since 2010 A couple of years ago, I started Cohoda – a software consulting company. Shortly after forming the company, I tried to register the github username – ‘cohoda’ It was taken (which I thought odd, since ‘Cohoda’ was a made up word!) After some investigation, I could…
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One of the many benefits of keeping a git repository inside dropbox
A couple of weeks ago, for a number of reasons, I had polluted my working copy so much, i decided it would be easier to simply blow my cloned repository folder away, and re-clone. So, I deleted the folder, and made a fresh checkout to the same place. Today, I was about to resume work…
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Git Error – bad config file line 1 in .git/config
Last night, just before leaving the office, my development VM decided to crash unexpectedly. Upon starting the machine the machine the following morning, and trying a git pull, I got the following error: bad config file line 1 in .git/config I CD’d into my .git directory, and opened up config in notepad There was nothing…