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Git (Intermediate): Manipulate and tidy up your commit history (git squash)

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:56:00 +0000

Git commit histories can sometimes be a mess to look at. Sometimes you make multiple commits that work on the same feature, and when you're done with the feature, you'd like to just merge the commits together so they show up in the history as a single commit. Sometimes you make one commit, and then you realized you left in some debugging...

How to Encrypt Your Emails (PGP ftw!)

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:27:00 +0000

This is a written tutorial and video walkthrough on how to use PGP to encrypt your email. The videos were done in a windows environment, but Video 2 and 3 in the series should give you a decent idea of how things work if you're a linux user. In section A of this writeup, I discuss linux installation and briefly go point Mac`ers to the proper...

Debian - Setting up Raid 1 (mirroring harddrives)

Fri, 04 May 2012 06:10:00 +0000

Before we begin, let me point out some benefits of using raid 1 mirroring. First, your mp3 files won't have their meta tags jumbled up and mangled by typical hard drive corruption. Also your movie files won't suddnely stop playing past certain points due to corruption. Umm... your exe files won't randomly give you errors about not...

Setting up a PXE server and booting a client (TFTP, PXE, DHCP, ...NFS...)

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:12:00 +0000

Have you ever wanted to use that fancy bios feature that you never had the time to straighten out? I'm talking about PXE...

Git - Setting Up Versions and Direct Downloads on Github

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:47:00 +0000

As time goes on, while managing your source code with github, you'll find yourself becoming bored with just having the latest version of your project being easily downloadable from

www.github.com/YOUR_NAME/YOUR_PROJECT

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Private (secret) Git Servers for your Source Code

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:35:00 +0000

So let's say you have a project that is so hawt, that you literally can't afford to let your trusty ISP see what you're working on. I know everyone loves and trusts names like Comcast, and AT&T to do the right thing in every circumstance, no matter what, but that's beside the point. Sometimes the project you're working on...

git (intermediate) - Keeping stuff out of your repo

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:36:00 +0000

Keep dumb stuff out of your git repo by adding it to your "git ignore" file!
$ vi .gitignore
(.gitignore)

database.yml

What if it's too late and you already added something that you need to get out?

Remove sensative data from github
ref: http://help.github.c...sensitive-data/
To permenently delete and Erase the...

git (intermediate) - undo last commit

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:23:00 +0000

If you ever decide that you wish you had never made the last commit you made, you can undo the current commit and get back there. Here's how:

1) Make it so git resets back to the commit before (aka "HEAD^")

$  git reset --soft HEAD^

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git (intermediate) - Forking Repos "collaborating overview"

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:22:00 +0000

http://help.github.com/fork-a-repo/...

git (intermediate) - Stash, resolving merge confilcts

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:14:00 +0000

Note To Self: Rename this blog to "Git: The Secrets to Controlling the World"

ref: http://dlinsin.blogs.../git-stash.html

If you make changes on your production server, and later on your development machine, make tons and tons of changes to lots of stuff, and decide some of the changes that you made on the production server were...