Questions tagged [git]
Git is an open-source DVCS (Distributed Version Control System)
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What impact does the ancestor file have with git merge-file?
Consider this example command line session...
$ git --version
git version 2.19.0.windows.1
$ echo "header" > ancestor.txt
$ cp ancestor.txt left.txt
$ cp ancestor.txt right.txt
At this point, ...
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Applying hotfix to intermediate commit on master
Below is the Gitflow workflow followed, where master branch has the commit history(git tag) of different releases.
From release mgmt aspect, we are deleting the release branch after merging with ...
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Release pipeline - Which artifact goes in production?
Below is the GitFlow workflow, we are using for a project.
So, in our project master branch currently has only one git commit with just a Readme file. develop branch is forked from that commit. As of ...
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Reducing dependencies between stories & which branch (GIT) should QA's test on?
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We have a team of 8 devs and 1 QA (tester) and we're struggling with dependencies between tickets and causing a lot of merge headaches and/or people waiting around for the next bit of work ...
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Code base architecture for one app that has multiple versions with small changes [duplicate]
I'm building a hybrid mobile app that has slightly different versions but share 99.9% of the code. There is a paid and free version, which differ in one function only. Also there is a slight ...
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Can/Should I make an automatic installation of new python libraries after a git pull?
Imagine the following situation:
I'm working on a python project, and I install the library antigravity with pip.
I add the function fly() which uses the library, and I commit and push the changes.
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How do I merge branches between Develop - Test and Production without moving across 'test' specific code?
I have a web application that has some specific differences between production and test environments.
I.e. test email config, test payment config, the word Test written on the home page (useful to be ...
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Do I need to 'deploy' my web project when I can just keep a recent clone of the Master-branch in public_html?
We have git installed on our webserver (via cpanel), but unfortunately no CI- / Deployment-Tools.
Would it be good practice just initialise our repository in /public_html/ and push our local Dev-...
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Storing test results in a Git repo?
At my company, we use a distributed pool of virtual machines to run our UI and API tests. These machines are all connected to an onsite server which the pool uses for publishing the test results and ...
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How to deal with multiple features in a single git repository in QA
So I'm running into an issue with us trying to test multiple features in our QA environment at the same time. Essentially, changes are taking too long to get promoted in our CI/CD pipeline.
The way ...
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Multi module Maven project or separate repositories?
Consider the following architecture:
Application A
Application B
Commons-Util
A and B share a lot of functionality. That's why we plan to extract the shared code into a commons library.
I am aware ...
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Sharing a sub-project and some users are git beginners?
We have two teams, each using git, and would like to share a small project between them. Git submodules sounded like an obvious answer until I started searching and found lots of "submodules will ...
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Effective GIT Branching Strategy
I am trying to figure out the optimal branching strategy for my organization. And I have few doubts.
We have 3 main environments, Live(Production), UAT (pre-release) and Staging. Similary in GIT we ...
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Fork 3 repo's into 1 main one
I have a specific problem in git which I havent found an answer to yet.
In gitlab I have 3 seperate repos. For my school project the teacher wants me to copy everything into a repo of his and wants to ...
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How do I keep two git projects in sync with each other?
I'm developing a Python library, and I'm also developing some code that uses it. Currently they are in the same git repository, but I want to separate out the library part into a separate repo, in ...
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Authenticate Git Pulls on a Compromised Machine [closed]
I may have a tough one for you.
I have a machine in the wild that is and will probably continue to be compromised. The machine is owned by a user who will be unable to keep it secure.
I must have ...
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how to build a stable API product and allow specification per project? [closed]
I am in search of information on how I to manage code in git flow and methodology to test and work with it :
I have an API in place to build and manage a product catalog and it was designed around ...
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Git branch management vs deployable environments
I am looking for a git branch management model that would be used easily and would allow for Continuous Integration/Delivery.
Imagine I have 3 environments: prod, uat and dev.
The code repository ...
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Implement Branching strategy in DevOps for Multi-Tenant application
I have asked this question on Stack Overflow and I got a suggestion of posting it here for better suitability. So here is my question :
I am new to DevOps, and i have a solution with Umbraco as CMS, ...
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Publish a single ASP.NET Web application on multiple domains with Git support
I have a developer who is developing an ASP.NET Web application for me and I've been publishing it so far on my server, example1.com, so far without any problems. It is managed with a single Git ...
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How to avoid code duplication in two similar projects?
We have a website with a lot of functionality, and we now start another one, which should have a lot of common code with the first one.
What would be the best approach to avoid code duplication?
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Bringing a large, complex legacy project under git control
I'm a newbie with respect to git, but not to version control in general — I've been using CVS and Subversion for years. I've read both the Progit and O'Reilly (Version Control with Git) books, ...
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How to use pull requests for code reviews with a shared remote repository?
I'm looking to improve the processes in our team. We currently are pretty informal: "I've finished feature X. Can you review my code?". This is not scaling up well now that we're busier - it's hard ...
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SVN / Git How to administer branches
I'm the technical lead for a small company (6 developers). We currently use SVN and we're slowly porting over to Git, after everyone gets their training.
Currently our clients are the ones who "pull ...
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Do we have distinct type of branches?
There is what we call feature branch in git.
Imagine for example I am making a game and I need to add a Power-up feature.
How I see my commits names with feature branches:
Branch name: Adding Power-...
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Git workflow regarding remote feature branches
I've been using git for a while, but still do not understand how to deal with feature branches.
When you develop in a feature branch in a strictly local manner everything makes sense. You commit, ...
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managing multiple git repo that are similar [closed]
We are creating several websites, the main content will be the same across each of them but there will be some differences (e.g. extra button, extra texts, different styling)
what is the best way to ...
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GIT - how to confirm repository ownership
I am starting a new service that would be an abstraction on top of git repositories. Basically, a user would sign up and Add Project (GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket repository).
The tricky part for me is ...
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Should I further branch off of a new branch or continue developing an additional feature in the same branch?
I have a branch (dashboard) which I am developing a new feature on.
To make the example easy to follow, I am developing two separate functions (function1() and function2()).
They work how I want ...
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Does it matter which branch I push to?
My question is around how branch pushes work exactly; I have come across something that doesn't make logical sense to me and as such would like an explanation as to why I am experiencing this ...
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Git branching model for teams with develop, test and deploy phases
A developed piece of code goes these phases in our team:
Developers write the code
Then they send it to testers
If tests pass, then testers send the change/new feature/bugfix to operations team for ...
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Knowing what will get released in gitflow
We are a web SaaS company using gitflow and JIRA. As we are 'done' (QA approved) with a feature, we move the story/ticket forward in Jira to a 'done' status. At that point we wait until it gets ...
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Versioning hardware vendor SDK with git
We have n C projects which reference 4 different versions of a device SDK - 12.3, 13.1, 15.0, and 15.2. There is no public upstream repo for the SDK - it is released as a zip file. We need to patch ...
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How to handle complete rewrite of a file in regards to code review
My situation is this: I am contributing to a Symfony/PHP project. I had to completely reskin one page in the application. The controller logic is almost totally unchanged. I only had to change the ...
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Git “dynamic merge” of multiple branches
I work with a feature branch model where the branches get merged into master when they are ready. Before a larger test (specific to my field of work, involving a lot of heavy hardware), several ...
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Sould i tag a hotfix release in production using GIT scm
We have weekly planned release cycle. Following standard semantic versioning system. Like first week V3.0.0, next V3.0.1 patch release, next week V3.1.0 minor release.
Apart from the above planned ...
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How to sync my fork and merge before sending pull request
I just started working with a pull and fork model. I keep sync my fork and create a new branch when I have to fix something or for a new feature.
I'd like to know what to do when I have to face the ...
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Is it good practice to switch back to an old branch to develop a new feature or to create a new branch?
I have an old branch (old-branch) which I last used approximately four months ago that I used to develop a feature for a specific project. It was never merged back into master because the feature ...
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how to maintain settings across different repositories
So I have .eslint and .settings (VSCode) files that I would like to be consistent across projects. How would I do this?
Currently, I am thinking that I should put them into a repository, which then I ...
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1 commit to 2 branches - what does it mean?
I wanted to check commits to a branch, and I saw that there were commits that appear in 2 branches.
Why?
What does it mean?
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Makefile: Dev and Release
In Git, I have a master branch (release) and a dev branch (development) for a C project.
In the master branch, I want gcc to only be passed the compiler flag -Os (optimize for speed) and not -ftest-...
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Reusing binary assets using Git
We have multiple projects that are using common binary assets (e.g. images, sounds, 3D models etc.) stored in a folder on a server. Right now, each project adds these assets to their git repository. ...
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Forking in Git - helps with merge conflicts?
We use a branching git workflow, but we have real issues with merge conflicts. None of us are git gurus so we always end up manually resolving the conflicts in an IDE which is error prone.
There has ...
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Working with maven and multiple git repositories
We recently migrated from SVN, with most code in a single repo, to git, with most projects in their own repos (about 70 of them).
We build about a dozen different apps from this java source. The apps ...
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One person controls only one folder, in a repository
How can I give complete control of one folder to one person, while the rest is in the control of another person. Control means they have the power to approve pull requests and commit to master and ...
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Is there a recommended Git branch strategy for two products in the same repo?
My team has a Git repo for a large service that incorporated a related, but fairly unique, micro-service. We recently decided to separate out the micro-service into its own service in terms of release ...
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Steps to convert multi-repo to mono-repo
What are the best steps to convert multi-repos to a mono-repo?
This is what I have so far:
for each repo, check out the most recent branch (integration branch, usually)
for each repo, copy the repo ...
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Storing config in source control, but a different version for each developer
We have a developer toolchain, governed by a config file. Each developer can have their own version of the config file. What is a good way to store separate versions of that config for each developer ...
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How to have multiple source copies of a dependency in a C# git project?
In our company, we develop information system software in C#.NET, which has client-server-module architecture. Module project does not depend directly on server/client project, but only on shared ...
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Process for archiving binaries from different repos using Git?
Working in the embedded systems space, our products usually require multiple binaries for each of the microcontrollers within a single product. Using SVN previously, we would bundle validation and ...
