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Bitbucket: diffing a file between two commits in a git repository

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/27

Example URL to diff Spring.pas over two commits in a git repository (reminder to self: see if I can find similar information for a Mercurial repository):

https://bitbucket.org/sglienke/spring4d/diff/Source/Base/Spring.pas?diff1=8f4d03020613&diff2=ca8037a2fdecbdbb23d3b997d1160f72838cee02&at=master

This diffs the file https://bitbucket.org/sglienke/spring4d/src/master/Source/Base/Spring.pas over these commits

–jeroen

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How to rename git local & remote branches, and local & remote tags

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/06

Since I keep forgetting the difference and order between renaming branches and tags.

Note you need to repeat the origin steps for each remote!

[WayBack] How to rename git local and remote branches:

git branch -m old_branch new_branch # Rename branch locally
git push origin :old_branch # Delete the old branch
git push --set-upstream origin new_branch # Push the new branch, set local branch to track the new remote

Like tags below, be aware of the implications when renaming branches: if you pushed before other users already can have the old branch and have acted upon it.

[WayBack] git tag – How do you rename a Git tag? – Stack Overflow:

old^{}
git tag -d old
git push origin :refs/tags/old
git push origin refs/tags/new

Be aware, of the [WayBack] implications that a Git Tag change has to consumers of a package!

Note the first step is not just a plain git tag new old

The reason is that this will create a tag new pointing to the tag old, failing to point to the actual commit behind old. A more detailed explanation, including how to better handle renames, is at [WayBack] git tag – Why isn’t my tag listed when I checkout with Git GUI? – Stack Overflow

–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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On my research list: “git merge –no-ff”

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/29

I need to put some time in understanding git merge --no-ff.

Some links to get started:

–jeroen

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Syncing GExperts svn to git

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/23

A while ago, I made a synced git repository and put it on [WayBack] GitHub – jpluimers/GExperts: Synced every now and then from git svn clone https://svn.code.sf.net/p/gexperts/code/trunk GExperts.

I forgot to save my initial notes, but they were based on what I did before with [WayBack] jeroenp / fastmm — Bitbucket**, so I resurrected my notes, after a chat with Graeme Geldenhuys on how he did a similar thing for Indy at

[WayBack] GitHub – graemeg/indy: Indy (Internet Direct) framework. This is an unofficial mirror repository which gets synced every 15 minutes. It contains the full history from the official Indy 10 SVN repository.

So here are my notes, as on GitHub they look odd:

[WayBack] GitHub – jpluimers/GExperts

Synced every now and then from git svn clone https://svn.code.sf.net/p/gexperts/code/trunk;

Syncing steps:

first time

git svn clone https://svn.code.sf.net/p/gexperts/code/trunk GExperts.git-svn
git remote add origin https://github.com/jpluimers/GExperts.git
git push origin master

each additional time from inside the GExperts.git-svn directory:

git svn fetch
git svn rebase
git push origin

It is very similar to what Graeme does for Indy in a cron job for each subsequent sync from https://svn.atozed.com:444/!/#Indy10/view/head/trunk/Lib to https://github.com/graemeg/indy:

#!/bin/sh
# Fetches latest revisions for Indy SubVersion repository
# and then pushes changes to GitHub.
# Created by Graeme Geldenhuys 

GIT="/usr/bin/git"

cd /data/git/indy.git/
$GIT checkout master
$GIT svn rebase
$GIT gc --auto
$GIT push github

And to my FastMM notes:

Getting the latest SVN changes:

git svn rebase

Initial repository creation and add to bitbucket (or github)

git svn clone http://svn.code.sf.net/p/fastmm/code/ FastMM.git

Notes (see [WayBack] Effectively Using Git With Subversion | Viget and [WayBack] Practical tips for using Git with large Subversion repositories for explanation):

  1. Do not include the -s option after git svn clone, as this SVN repository does not have the default trunk/branches/tags structure.
  2. There are no [WayBack] SVN ignore entries in this repository, so this is not needed for git svn show-ignore > .gitignore

Add the repository to Bitbucket or GitHub:

Add either of these URLs to  [WayBack] Feedly for monitoring:

Some additional tidbits:

–jeroen

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The most useful git commands | orga.cat

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/22

The most advanced commands are towards the tail of [WayBack] The most useful git commands | orga.cat

Here there are some examples of git commands that I use often.

They include:

Get the git root directory

git rev-parse --show-toplevel

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/q/957928/1391963

See closest tags

git describe --tags `git rev-list --tags --max-count=1`

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/q/1404796/1391963. See also git-describe.

See recently used branches (i.e. branches ordered by most recent commit)

git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ | head

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/q/5188320/1391963

Which means I need to look into at least these:

–jeroen

 

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Git install tip for Windows installations: “”

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/21

When installing Git on Windows, you might want to change the default HTTPS transport back-end setting into “Use the Windows Secure Channel library” as it will use the Windows Certificate Stores for certificate validation. For Windows users, this allows for a more natural way to configure additional Root CS certificates (for instance the ones coming from Active Directory Domain Services).

If you later want to change this, then you can either re-run the installer, or perform these commands (based on the installer source):

To select the OpenSSL library:

config --system http.sslBackend openssl

To select the Windows Secure Channel library:

config --system http.sslBackend schannel

I do need to check out other ways of installing it (more on that in [WayBack] 5 Ways to Install Git on Windows · James Sturtevant), but for now I’m using the regular installer.

At first time install (subsequent installs will re-use the first-time install location without a way to overwrite them):

  • If you run that “As Administrator”, then it will install for all users (64-bit in C:\Program Files\Git, 32-bit in C:\Program Files (x86)\Git)
  • Otherwise in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Git which usually is in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Git).

Note that the actually executables are inside a bin subdirectory of the installation path.

–jeroen

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“error: invalid object 100644” “git svn”

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/14

A while back, while using “git svn”, on a Windows system, I got [Archive.is] “error: invalid object 100644” “git svn” – Google Search after statements like this:

# git svn rebase
error: refs/remotes/git-svn does not point to a valid object!
error: invalid object 100644 ac7df132f5bd7d639fc525f1f0204a546658d0c5 for 'Source/ToDoList/GX_ToDo.pas'
fatal: git-write-tree: error building trees
write-tree: command returned error: 128

# git svn fetch
error: refs/remotes/git-svn does not point to a valid object!
error: invalid object 100644 ac7df132f5bd7d639fc525f1f0204a546658d0c5 for 'Source/ToDoList/GX_ToDo.pas'
fatal: git-write-tree: error building trees
write-tree: command returned error: 128

In my case, regular git operations (like branching, committing, pushing, etc) worked fine, but git svn would fail.

One problem was that [Archive.is] “error: refs/remotes/git-svn does not point to a valid object” – Google Search only returned one un-meaningful result: [WayBack] gist:87613 · GitHub.

Luckily, I had a backup (though it was from a while ago as that VM had not been in use for quite some time) which is the first part in [WayBack] Git FAQ – Git SCM Wiki: How to fix a broken repo?.

Since I was still interested finding out how to resurrect, just in case this happens at a time the backups do not go back far enough, I tried the steps below.

The very first fixing step is to ensure you can quickly restore things, or even better: operate on a copy of the broken pieces. On Windows, robocopy /mir is my friend for this, in Linux rsync -avloz (although on some systems, -z crashes).

TL;DR from the fixing steps

Find out what problems you have, and in which order to fix them. Otherwise you will break more stuff and take longer to fix it.

In this case, two things failed: one on the git side, and one on the git svn side. Since git svn depends on git, the best approach is to fix the git problem first, then the git svn thing.

Fixing this manually try 1

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How can I debug git/git-shell related problems? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/07

Always read the comments (:

Cool tip by Paul Irish (but remember it will dump the binary curl output as well) at [WayBack] How can I debug git/git-shell related problems? – Stack Overflow:

There are a few GIT_TRACE options, beyond the core one. Here’s the über-verbose option: set -x; GIT_TRACE=2 GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=2 GIT_TRACE_PERFORMANCE=2 GIT_TRACE_PACK_ACCESS=2 GIT_TRACE_PACKET=2 GIT_TRACE_PACKFILE=2 GIT_TRACE_SETUP=2 GIT_TRACE_SHALLOW=2 git pull origin master -v -v; set +x

Related: [WayBack] Git – Environment Variables

–jeroen

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Git – Credential Storage: caching for some time (and removing it)

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/24

From [WayBack] Git – Credential Storage:

Git has a few options provided in the box:

  • The default is not to cache at all. Every connection will prompt you for your username and password.
  • The “cache” mode keeps credentials in memory for a certain period of time. None of the passwords are ever stored on disk, and they are purged from the cache after 15 minutes.
  • …

$ git config --global credential.helper cache

The cache helper accepts the --timeout <seconds> option, which changes the amount of time its daemon is kept running (the default is 900, or 15 minutes).

This is a one time config setting.

To remove it, use this command:

$ git config --global unset credential.helper cache

–jeroen

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