Archive for the ‘git’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/16
[Wayback/Archive] version control – How can I see the changes in a Git commit? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] laktak, [Wayback/Archive] Nevik Rehnel, [Wayback/Archive] Juuso Ohtonen and [Wayback/Archive] User c z – Stack Overflow)
This looks like a valid question, but in reality it is not.
The thing is: in git, think of a commit not as a diff but as a snapshot*.
A diff is the difference between two commits.
Since most commits have just a single parent, so that’s why many people call a commit a diff. But that’s not true, especially not for merge commits that have at least two parents.
Anyway, the question, answer and comment from the link above already give some insight (note COMMIT everywhere below has to be replaced with the commit hash):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/04
I used [Wayback/Archive] How could i get a permanent link for raw file? · community · Discussion #22537 · GitHub to go
The reason I needed it is that for quite a while now, GitHub has started to display PDF files as preview, and modified the download behaviour to get a blob: link instead of the actual raw file download location.
On the to do list:
- figure out the same for raw files in gists
- figure out the same for GitLab
- convert these into Bookmarklets (fiddle with the bold parts in the above URLs)
Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Lotaristo (Czeslaw Meyer) and [Wayback/Archive] byrneh (Hugh Byrne)
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/03
Interesting: Buddy (software) – Wikipedia
Buddy (also known as Buddy.Works) is a web-based and self-hosted continuous integration and delivery software for Git developers that can be used to build, test and deploy web sites and applications with code from GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab. It employs Docker containers with pre-installed languages and frameworks for builds, alongside DevOps, monitoring and notification actions.
On my list of things to try in case built-in GitGub and GitLab functionality does not suffice my needs any more.
I wonder how well it runs on ARM architecture.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/11
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] xahteiwi.eu – Handy Git aliases
- List branches by their date of last modification
- Delete old topic branches that have been merged
- Find the origin of a branch point
- Fix trailing whitespace
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/16
As a keyboard person, I prefer to live on the CLI (command-line interface), so when possible I prefer command-line tools over GUI tools (especially since command-line tool are way easier to script).
In the past on non-Windows systems I used gist (see below), but that is not available on Windows unless you have a Ruby environment.
Some notes on Windows to install and authenticate GitHub CLI (gh) and GitLab CLI (glab), both of which I previously mentioned in Tribal Knowledge? Getting the public keys from github and gitlab users from their username.
For me, installing is easiest through Chocolatey (version numbers from the time of writing; the non-archived URLs point to the most current version available):
This was my install script:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/25
The manual process of getting back to the earliest commit of a GitHub repository is easy for small repositories, but for a large one it is very tedious.
TL;DR: there are various ways, but the easiest was the INIT Bookmarklet below.
Note: 2 weeks before the scheduled post made it to the front of the queue, I got a report¹ that it started to fail. Here it still works.
It’s hard to debug because of the functional programming approach taken.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/24
A few years back, a few interesting files turned up that are directly served from the testla.com web-site right in the middle when Musk used their software engineers to asses twitter.com code quality:
Some do not exist (of which some any more):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/15
Empirically, these are show the same behaviour where “command 2″and “command 3″are documented, but still present a lot as the only solution in blog posts and help sites:
git config commands
command 1: list |
command 2: --list |
command 3: -l |
what config is shown |
git config list --local |
git config --list --local |
git config -l --local |
--local config for current repository |
git config list --global |
git config --list --global |
git config -l --global |
--global config for the current user |
git config list --system |
git config --list --system |
git config -l --system |
--system config for all users |
git config list |
git config --list |
git config -l |
all 3 levels of config combined, for convenience
without telling which configuration setting is on which level |
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