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Git: Stop Tracking File After Adding to .gitignore

Accidentally forgot to add a file to the .gitignore file and started tracking it with other files? Or perhaps a remote repository already has a file tracked that you've cloned, but would like to stop tracking? Just as important as tracking changes is not tracking them in certain cases, lest...

David Landup

Jun 25, 2021

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Git: Undo Latest Local Commit

Accidentally committed something to the wrong branch? Perhaps, you just committed the new shining feature, and to your dismay, there's a typo in the user interface you haven't seen before, and you'd like to take the commit back to fix that as well? In some cases, you can fix it,...

David Landup

Jun 21, 2021

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Git: Stashing Uncommitted Changes

If you've been working with Git long enough, you've probably had times where you made changes to your codebase, but needed to switch branches or work with the latest working version of your code. However, you don't want to lose the changes you've made already, but they're not yet ready...

Scott Robinson

Jun 10, 2021

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Beginner's Introduction to Jenkins - CI/CD

The advent of fast-paced development with many methodologies like Scrum, Agile and Kanban brought along some key issues: developers working in small increments spent a lot of time waiting for the new version to build, reach the testers and eventually get deployed. The development process would be much faster if...

Dragan Bjekic

Jun 04, 2021

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Git: An Introduction for Beginners

Software development is inherently full of challenges. This ranges from architecting your software, maintaining it, fixing bugs, deploying, and the list goes on. When starting out, you'd think that the easy part would be to share you code with others. After all, they're just text files, right? This may not...

Scott Robinson

Feb 28, 2020·6 min read

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Git: Adding a Commit Message

As many programmers have found out the hard way, adding documentation is extremely important in being able to easily make modifications to your code, fix issues, pass off to others, etc. Just because your code makes sense now doesn't mean it'll make sense to you in 6 months (or even...

Scott Robinson

Feb 26, 2020·2 min read

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Git: Ignore Files with .gitignore

Git is a great tool for tracking all of the files in a project, whether you have only a few to track or thousands. But just because a file exists in your project doesn't mean you automatically want to keep track of it and its changes over the lifetime of...

Scott Robinson

Nov 25, 2019·6 min read

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Git: Switch Branch

In Git, branches allow you to create different versions of your code from a snapshot in the repository. So if you have a new feature to develop, a bug to fix, or code to rewrite, you can easily create a branch that won't affect the master branch of your codebase....

Scott Robinson

Sep 20, 2019·2 min read

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Git: Remove a File

As your project changes over time, at some point you'll likely need to remove a file, or an entire directory, from the repository. Since this involves more than changing the contents of a file, Git has a special command to handle removing files, which also takes some important flags depending...

Scott Robinson

Sep 18, 2019·3 min read