Got an error when pushing a relatively large commit to GitLab: error: RPC failed; HTTP 502 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 502
There was no big difference in information between these commands¹:
git pushgit push --verbose
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A lot of GitLab pages links and Git pushing a relatively large commit to GitLab: “error: RPC failed; HTTP 502 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 502”
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/27
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The GitLab.com risk of having “Inactive project deletion” disabled and “Delayed project deletion” enabled
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/27
After the 2022 GitLab.com backlash* to auto-delete “inactive” (for whichever metric of “inactive”) repositories of free users, I thought they would have multiple checks in place to prevent that from happening.
TL;DR: of two possible checks to prevent this, only one is in place.
This means that if by accident one of those checks stops working, all inactive repositories will be be deleted after a 7 day retention period. Which is very short, especially when you miss the email about it (for instance because of holiday or health reasons).
That bad!
How/why I found out
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Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI – Sherwood News (and a few links on SEDE – Stack Exchange Data Explorer)
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/26
Interesting article: [Wayback/Archive] Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI – Sherwood News. with this important quote:
The complex questions still get asked on Stack because there’s no other place. If the LLMs are only as good as the data, which is typically human curated, we’re one of the best places for that, if not the best for technology.
I wonder about how far it has declined now, and also think these are reasons for the decline as well:
- a lot of fundamental questions for each topic have already been asked
- few new programming languages gained popularity over the last decade (I think golang was the last major one)
- discussions on GitHub and to a lesser extent GitLab have taken over a lot of traffic
- toxic behaviours on mainly the Stack overflow and meta site I mentioned in The toxic reactions to “What would be good alternatives to Stack Overflow for questions about software solutions to drive hardware? – Meta Stack Overflow”
Anyway, the graph in that post is just a sexy version of a query you can create yourself on the SEDE (Stack Exchange Data Explorer). That’s why I included both below.
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How could i get a permanent link for raw file? · community · Discussion #22537 · GitHub
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
- from github.com/sk3pp3r/cheat-sheet-pdf/blob/master/pdf/vim-cheat-sheet.pdf
- to raw.githubusercontent.com/sk3pp3r/cheat-sheet-pdf/master/pdf/vim-cheat-sheet.pdf
- in future blog post ikwyl6 vim cheat sheet
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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Buddy (software) – Wikipedia
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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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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Needed a binary paste bin since GitHub gists and GitLab snippets cannot even contain non-picture small binaries
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/25
Most of what I share is in text or picture form but every once in a blue moon I need to share small binaries publicly in a way mere mortals can use.
Since neither GitHub gists nor GitLab snippets support other binary files than images*, and most Pastebin sites are text-only I queried [Wayback/Archive] binary pastebin – Google Search which got me to [Wayback/Archive] Binary pastebin | boltblog.
That in turn pointed to [Wayback/Archive] Pastebin (paste.c-net.org) which has a full page of help, including this important bit:
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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):
- [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | GitHub CLI 2.20.2
- [Wayback/Wayback] Chocolatey Software | glab 1.22.0 which depends on this actual install:
This was my install script:
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Tribal Knowledge? Getting the public keys from github and gitlab users from their username
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/03
Learned a while ago: if you have the username from a GitHub or GitLab user, you can download interesting that sometimes can make life easier (but not necessarily more secure):
github.com/username.keysgives you their public SSH keysgitlab.com/username.keysgives you their public SSH keysgithub.com/username.pnggives you their profile image
And that there are tools like gh, glab and age that can make direct use of them.
I love Twitter, so thanks for these for teaching me these little tricks:
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Reminder: check out what GitLab has put in place for “dormant” or “inactive” repositories
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/31
A few of my git repositories and technical surroundings (like pages) should outlast my life expectancy, for instance the ones supporting the IT infrastructure of my mentally retarded brother after I pass away.
Most of the involved repositories have no write-activity (they are either documentation that the people can use after I passed away, or are semi-static web-pages that require TLS in order to keep functioning; GitLab provides an automatic update mechanism for that which is based on Let’s Encrypt).
Summer 2022, GitLab caused quite some stir when they planned to first delete dormant repositories. Links on tose below.
Of course I could move to GitHub, but that lacks access control through project hierarchy provided by GitLab and could implement a similar repository dormancy scheme in the future.
Using an external “keepalive” mechanism only induces a game of walls and ladders [Wayback/Archive] (likely requiring intervention after I die) and also makes the infrastructure more brittle so I proposed a lump sum plan.
Some links for my reminder:
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