Questions tagged [git]
Git is an open-source DVCS (Distributed Version Control System)
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Project structure with git submodules with common dependencies
I have two (and more in the future) Python projects that I'd like to package into a global package in order to import its modules and use them in another external projects in the future.
This is how ...
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How to manage multiple NuGet packages in GitHub and Artifactory?
My colleagues and I are in the process of re-architecting our system. The old system is a ASP.NET monolith using TFS for source control. The new system is made up of ASP.NET Core microservices using ...
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GitHub flow: how do I test my changes that cannot be tested locally?
I am trying to start using GitHub flow in my project. I like that it is simple and, more importantly, it encourages continuous delivery.
However, there is one thing about this flow that I cannot ...
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Gerrit: Working around the "single-change:single-commit" principle. Need Feedback
I have been using Gerrit in my work environment and I find it really amazing and powerful because of its elegant use of git's branching features to create virtual branches for code reviews (the "refs/...
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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 to remove and archive source code in a git project so it can be found
I'm working on a project where requirements are rapidly changing, therefore some functionality is built then rapidly replaced by other functionality. I'd like to remove some functionality from the ...
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Better alternative for cherry picking across heavily diverged branches
I'm currently trying to update the linux kernel used in a xilinx SoC, my company has an internal repo/fork of xilinx open source linux with a bunch of kernel drivers for our custom hardware & ...
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AWS codepipeline deployment
I currently have an AWS Codepipeline that is setup to automatically pull an Express, NodeJS API and deploy it with Lambda and API Gateway. It pulls the code from my GitHub repo production branch and ...
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Wordpress and git, (using WPE), how do you incorporate database changes into the workflow?
We use WordPressEngine and want to have multiple developers and multiple branches using git.
One challenge is how do we incorporate the database into the workflow? Should we take a sql dump and ...
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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
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Implementing redundant GIT backup scheme
I want to push a local repo to multiple remote GIT repositories to achieve redundancy in my backup scheme. So, let's say I plan to use Github and BitBucket to host my repositories.
I have two ...
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Multiple git committers on same repo and machine with forwarding agent
I have a remote machine where multiple developers work on the same repository. We use gitolite and SSH keys to manage git access.
As for now we code on the local machines, commit, push, pull remotely ...
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Which commits should I use when calculating DORA "Lead time" metric?
As per the "Accelerate State of DevOps 2019" (you can download it here) they define lead time for changes as:
how long does it take to go from code
committed to code successfully running in ...
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Gradle + Git - enforcing a version change upon merge to master
I am leading a team of developers creating a Java library. We are following the standard Semantic Versioning model. The code is versioned with Git. Artifacts are built and pushed to an artifact ...
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External standalone cpp code in my project
I've inherited a project that has a codebase in src/, but it also has precompiled binaries of dependency software in bin/. I would like to move away from having precompiled software as part of our ...
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How to setup git repository subfolder mirror?
It is known that Laravel Framework consist of library collection named Illuminate. In which some libraries are mirrored into separate repositories, right under https://github.com/illuminate/ namespace....
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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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Are squash-merges compatible with the Developer Certificate of Origin?
The Developer Certificate of Origin appears to be widely used in open source at this point, including support at GitHub and use by GitLab community edition.
In accepting a pull request, many folks (...
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VS2015 & Git Submodules
We have a few projects in my organization that are being developed in parallel and I have found that they are increasingly using similar Utility/Logging/Etc functionalities that they have as separate ...
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Git Repositories updated
I would like to keep two Git repositories updated.
First one, is GitHub open source project that gets updated frequently.
Second one is a private held Git Repo located other than GitHub. This one ...
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Version Control for several projects
I've found several things about how to manage a data science projet with GIT but I didn't find something about how to manage a set of projects.
In 90% of the case I'm working alone and over the ...
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Git collaboration with pull request in a company
I am thinking of a way to do collaboration between coders in a company, suppose we have 2 type of servers: Production and Staging. Now we want to review all changes going to Production via pull-...
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GitShell, how can I not type the username and passwords?
Open the CMD, and I should type the password and usename?
In the GitShell opened by shortcut, I don't need to type the username and password.
Related is here:
https://softwareengineering....
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How to properly follow a forked git repository?
We have to fork a repository and keep it up to date, with adding changes here and there. The important branches are remote/1.0 and remote/1.1
The workflow currently used is to fork the repository, ...
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Keeping a fork of a repository up-to-date with upstream changes
I have a repository, which is a fork of a public project. The fork contains several additional commits with custom features - nothing fancy. Recently, I have been wondering what would be the best ...
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Sole software engineer for a small company. How to handle deployment?
I'm the only software engineer for a small company and I want to make my deployment process more robust because I can't work away from my dedicated workstation with my current process. I only make ...
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How to maintain and deploy a poc (Proof Of Concept) version of an app?
In our organization we sometimes have to create a poc (proof of concept) to either validate or invalidate the way to go. Currently we're having a discussion around how to embed this within our ...
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Managing Documentation / Source Control for a Full-Stack Application Across Multiple Repos
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I have a moderately sized/complexity web application (Angular 11) in one repo and a standalone REST API (.NET Core 3 / C#) in another repo, and am trying to figure out the most efficient way to ...
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Package management & DTAP: how to keep overview?
We have an application which contains of multiple composer packages.
A default structure of the site is:
src/
application/
vendor/
vendorname/
framework/
filemanagement/
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Each package has its ...
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Rewind commits to new branch in git
I have three branch on my git tree. master contains validated source version, develop contains
staging versions, then I have some feature branches.
For now, I have the current strucutre;
The numbers ...
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Separating Development and Deliverables with Git/Github
I am looking for some advice on the best way to manage my development worflow. I have been using git locally to track development and have recently uploaded a couple of private projects into Github.
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Git feature branch workflow for multiple branched features
I wanted to summarize a quick discussion we had in my stand-up today. We have a big feature branch merge coming up in our system. We are replacing the old live, system (branch master) with a redesign (...
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What are best practices to synchronize multiple git branches?
For example, Gitlab indicates that the develop branch is behind master:
Example 1
Example 2
One could make a merge request from master to develop, but as there are no code changes it seems ...
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Is updating a remote-tracking branch by local branch a good practice?
In Pro Git you can see:
Remote-tracking branches are references to the state of remote
branches. They’re local references that you can’t move; they’re moved
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Version Control & Deployment on Large Ecommerce Site
I am currently Front End Dev for a large ecommerce store and I'm wanting to switch the entire site to a Version Control System (Git) and Deployment service (Beanstalk). I'm having trouble ...
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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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How to maintaine a local git fork from a repo with many branches
I'm using a public git repository and adjusting it to my specific needs, meaning that the changes are not worthy of being merged upstream.
Repo is in github (upstream), and we maintain our own git ...
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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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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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Looking for a good git workflow for new projects with a small team
I work in a small team of developers (there are 3 of us).
in the research that I have done, the workflow that most teams seem to follow seems to be as follows a branch is created for a feature and ...
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How, in eclipse do I work with an existing maven project in GitHub without ending up checking my .project file?
I have a maven project in GitHub that I wish to work with using eclipse.
I want to keep the GitHub repository clear of any eclipse project artifacts such as the .project file.
Is there a way to do ...
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What happens when create new brand in Git?
I'm new to Git and SourceTree tool. I don't understand why this happens?
My steps:
1. Create new brand, named develop/john/LinksMiddleware/new
2. Stages changed files, for more details there're ...
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How to organise the correct handling of versions of binaries
I'm currently working in a firm, based on an executable, who uses different DLLs. There are several issues:
Everybody builds the binaries on his own PC.
The executables (*.exe and *.dll files) are ...
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Git semantic commit messages but the repo is declarative infrastructure as code
According to the informal git semantic commit specs anything is not a new feature impacting users is a chore.
What happens if the repo only contains configuration info, like the company's ...
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Version control problem
I heavily use Excel and CSV at my workplace.
File 0 Excel File
The initial file is an Excel file. Let's call this File 0. This may or may not change with time depending upon the requirement of the ...
