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xahteiwi.eu – Handy Git aliases

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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Figuring out the version of a GitLab instance

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/05

The easiest way to figure out the version number of a GitLab instance is to browse to the /help bage.

But be aware the version number only shows when you are signed in.

At the time of writing [Wayback/Archive] Help · GitLab (gitlab.com/help) showed this:

GitLab Enterprise Edition 15.7.0-pre ff1158094d6

The link showed [Wayback/Archive] Commits · ff1158094d6 · GitLab.org / GitLab · GitLab.

When nog logged on, the help page showed this:

GitLab Enterprise Edition

Via [Wayback/Archive] Markdown rendering of double indented lists fails (#33471) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab FOSS · GitLab.

Confirmed by [Wayback/Archive] How to check the version of GitLab? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Maxim).

–jeroen

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Installing and authenticating the GitHub CLI gh and GitLab CLI glab on Windows

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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GitHub: finding the oldest commit on large repositories

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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Some testla.com artifacts indicate it runs on PHP being deployed from a git repository

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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git config: list all variables and their default values – Stack Overflow

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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git on Windows: figuring out SID mismatch

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/31

A few years back I had an error happen a while on one of my Windows machines after a git pull: fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at 'C:/versioned/repository' followed by a few lines with Windows SIDs (Security Identifiers) that I had to map to actual users.

I thought I had it scheduled, but my notes were in a draft post, so when I bumped into it again when upgrading an old virtual machine with new versions I finished it and scheduled it for now.

The first time I got the error was after git for Windows fixed security vulnerability [Wayback/Archive] CVE-2022-24765 and included the quote from [Wayback/Archive] Uncontrolled search for the Git directory in Git for Windows · Advisory · git-for-windows/git:

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GitHub: creating a directory while adding on-line adding a file or uploading file(s)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/20

Since git doesn’t have the notion of directories as entities, neither does GitHub.

This makes it counter-intuitive to add a sub-directory when creating a new file on-line in the GitHub web-UI or uploading file(s) there.

I wanted to do this as instead of taking the local route, it was easier to on-line add and edit [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – jpluimers/https-imgur.com-a-bmw-e61-remote-fix-sWdk0: Content from https://imgur.com/a/bmw-e61-remote-fix-sWdk0 for Wayback Machine archival.

The GitHub web-UI can indeed do this:

Further reading

You can also do this from the git command-line, by adding an empty file in the directory first. By convention, usually a .gitkeep file is used for that though others use .gitignore files for it.

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On my list of thigs to play around with: ISSUE_TEMPLATE and other GitHub templates/settings

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/05

Somehow I never consciously thought through how on many GitHub repositories, some of the issue reporting steps started with nice templates.

That is, until I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] alfred-my-mind/.github at master · nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind which has:

  1. a folder [Wayback/Archive] alfred-my-mind/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE at master · nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind with Markdown files for different kinds of issues (bug report, feature request and question).
  2. a file [Wayback/Archive] alfred-my-mind/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md at master · nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind

So from [Wayback/Archive] ISSUE_TEMPLATE – Google Search a few results for me to get started:

--jeroen

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Updating Git for Windows credentials for Bitbucket app password – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/16

For me, saving bitbucket.org passwords fails consistently (when using app passwords, it keeps popping up the git credentials dialog on Windows each time I try to push to origin), so I need to dig deeper into [Wayback/Archive] Updating Git for Windows credentials for Bitbucket app password – Stack Overflow.

Query: [Wayback/Archive] windows store bitbucket app password in git – Google Suche

--jeroen

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