Posts Tagged “git”

Pluck out an old revision of a file with git show

by Kenneth Kalmer on March 20, 2009

I was busy merging work back and forth between topic branches today and by accident miss-merged a 700-line spec. Everything else was fine (or so I hope) except this one file. I couldn’t use git revert, since that would mean (…)

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Using hoptoad in open source project deployments

by Kenneth Kalmer on September 26, 2008

It came down on me like a ton of bricks when I deployed the audit updates to our production PowerDNS on Rails setup, hoptoad isn’t installed and any errors would just be gone and forgotten. The solution is pretty simple, (…)

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From svn to git, handling non-standard repo layouts

by Kenneth Kalmer on June 16, 2008

Today I finally had to “extract” a project from one of our biggest repos as part of a git migration plan. I’ve converted most of the other smaller projects in the same repo over using just their trunk, and it (…)

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GitHub pulls, and Tableless Model improvements

by Kenneth Kalmer on May 26, 2008

I checked up on ActiveRecord::Tableless and saw a fork that had some promising changes in, so I set out to pull those changes back to my repo. Seemed simple enough, I followed Steven Bristol’s steps and it worked. The changes (…)

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