Published: July 23, 2019
When working with contributing to open-source software, one typically works from a forked repository of the original repository. Depending on the frequency of updates to the original repository, it is very easy for both repositories to become out-of-sync very quickly. A strategy that I learned is use inform the local git repository of two different repositories and to manually keep…
Read more...Published: October 02, 2018
The time of Hacktoberfest is upon us! For the entire month of October, every pull request against an open-source repository on Github will count towards one's Hactoberfest rank. Submit at least 5 pull requests and you are eligible to earn a cool t-shirt and, more importantly, you get the experience of helping out an open-source project! Just register your github…
Read more...Published: September 09, 2018
On July 2nd of this year, I discovered an amazing git-stash option that lets me see the git-diff between what I currently have and what is in the stash: git stash show -p. Shortly thereafter, Brian Fenton directed me to a great article on git stash, Useful tricks you might not know about Git stash. From this article, I also…
Published: December 28, 2014
I have moved my site from one domain to another. I was using Wordpress on my old site and was happy. Adding pages was a thing of beauty. Configuring was a dream. Then I wanted to modify my theme. Then I wanted to use some fun HTML5 tags. Then I wanted to minimize hacking vectors. Then I realized that I…
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