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Syncing your fork to the original repository via the browser · KirstieJane/STEMMRoleModels Wiki · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/31

[WayBack] Syncing your fork to the original repository via the browser · KirstieJane/STEMMRoleModels Wiki · GitHub

TL;DR: you can do the sync from the Web UI, but it always gives you an extra merge commit.

–jeroen

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Checkout github pull requests locally · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/18

Checkout github pull requests locally. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Source: [WayBack] Checkout github pull requests locally · GitHub

The trick is to add one more fetch line to the [remote "origin"] sections in your .git/config files, as in the gist below.

fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*

Which reminds me I should read more about that the fetch syntax which is called RefSpec: [WayBack] Git – The Refspec

–jeroen

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Thread by @doctorow on the RIAA using DMCA section 1201 to ban youtubedl from GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/31

A very interesting thread by @doctorow:

Late last week, the @RIAA sent a legal threat to @Github, claiming that the popular (and absolutely lawful) tool #youtubedl (which allows users to download Youtube videos for offline viewing, e……

Source: [WayBack] Thread by @doctorow on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

More on section 1201: [Wayback] Pluralistic: 24 Oct 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow: RIAA kills youtubedl

There is also a great technical analysis at [Wayback/Archive.is] Analysis of the RIAA claims against youtube-dl · GitHub

This write-up follows the code paths in youtube-dl that get executed when you try to run it based on the claims of RIAA has put forward. This is a technical analysis, not a legal one.

via

–jeroen

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Searching github commits

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/29

Finding the github commit search page was not obvious to me as the main page only allows searching for repositories, and commit pages insides repositories do not have a search box:

Luckily there are two search pages that can search issues:

You can get to both by stumbling on [WayBack] About searching on GitHub – User Documentation, then clicking “Search using a visual interface”

The first search page has built-in help which I have included below, though not explaining how to search for commits which are in [WayBack] Searching commits – User Documentation, and certainly does not tell you need to add type=commitsto the search box.

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Rendering SVG on gitea and gitlab

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/07

At the time of writing:

<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">

–jeroen

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Git: Push a new or existing repo to Github · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/27

Since I tend to forget the exact statements for starting a fresh repository and push it to a git hoster like GitHub or GitLab: [WayBack] Git: Push a new or existing repo to Github · GitHub

–jeroen

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Githunt – Chrome Web Store – discover new github projects in your technology area of interest

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/10

Archive.is Githunt – Chrome Web Store: Replace the new tab with a list of trending repositories on github belonging to any technology that you chose.

More information: [WayBack] How to get trending GitHub projects in your Chrome new tab screen with GitHunt

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] This is how I discover new and interesting open source Delphi/Pascal projects – install Githunt and it replaces my ‘new tab’ page, there I set the langu… – Edwin Yip – Google+

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RawGit is going away: redirect your content before October 2019 (it does disappear after that)

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/04

[WayBack] RawGit: RawGit served raw files directly from GitHub with proper Content-Type headers.

This means you have to redirect your existing RawGit links before October 2019, and you cannot add new links on RawGit.

You might want to try alternatives, for instance this one I mentioned in 2017: raw.githack.com – like rawgit.com but supports bitbucket as well and runs on plain nginx.

[WayBack] raw.githack.com:

raw.githack.com serves raw files directly from GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab with proper Content-Type headers.

There are some other options that RawGit itself mentions:

What you should use instead

The following free services offer fantastic alternatives to some or all of RawGit’s functionality. You may like them even more than RawGit.

RawGit source is still at [WayBack] GitHub – rgrove/rawgit: Served files from raw.githubusercontent.com, but with the correct content types., so if you want to host your own alternative you can.

It means I need to change these pages:

–jeroen

 

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git on Windows: prevent “The requested URL returned error: 403” during push of https based repository

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/10

When you search for git push "The requested URL returned error: 403", then the usual answer is “use ssh over https”, for instance at [WayBack] github – Pushing to Git returning Error Code 403 fatal: HTTP request failed – Stack Overflow.

However, lots of places (especially larger corporations and financials) limit outgoing traffic to http and https based for (often perceived) security reasons.

In this case, I needed a solution for Windows, which – after a long search – found two solutions that are below.

I use the https://gitlab.com/wiert.me/examples/sql-examples.git repository as an example, but it isn’t limited to GitLab: the same symptoms happen with other hosters as well (for instance on GitHub and BitBucket):

First what doesn’t work: they all give the same 403 message.

  1. Installing a newer git version (I tried git version 2.13.3.windows.1)
  2. have the plain URL:
  3. put just the username or e-mail address in the URL
  4. put just the username or e-mail address in the URL with a blank password
  5. for the four above, add the caching credential helper then add a credential:
    • git config --local credential.helper cachegit config --local credential.https://gitlab.com.username wiert
      You get this log:
      Pushing to https://gitlab.com/wiert.me/examples/sql-examples.git
      git: 'credential-cache' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
      remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied
      fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://gitlab.com/wiert.me/examples/sql-examples.git/'

What could work

The first thing that works is to include the actual password in the repository URL like this:

When you enter the correct password, everything is fine. Except that the password is stored as plain text on disk.

What works

The real solution on Windows is to use the Windows Credential Manager. I found this because of the 5th failure above.

To see which username/password combinations have been stored or add your own, you can start the Credential Manager on the command-line like this (each Windows version seems to have a different path to the UI from the control panel; the console trick just works on all Windows versions I tested):

%windir%\explorer.exe shell:::{1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}

Note the above was the reason for writing List of Shell GUIDs for various Windows versions for use in shortcuts and batch files.

What might work on non-Windows systems

I have the impression that the “cached” credential manager will work on non-Windows systems, but need to find some time testing that on multiple platforms. Stay tuned (:

For that I need to look into at least these:

–jeroen

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URL query string for searching own GitHub Gists (via: Stack Overflow)

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/21

Is there a URL query string for searching own GitHub Gists? – Stack Overflow.

Yes, there is, and search terms search within your gists too:

More search parameters are at https://github.com/random-parts/til/blob/master/github/gist-search-cheatsheet.md

–jeroen

via: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1097

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