Remote (Git)

Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 22:59

Tags: Git VCS

A remote is a URL to a repository from which you can pull changes and to which you can push changes.

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Gitignore

Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 22:18

Tags: Git VCS

You typically only want to check in the files that are really neccessary but not the ones which can be generated. By adding files and folders to a .gitignore file they will not be checked in.

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Git Push Default

Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 21:58

Tags: Git VCS

The default push strategy is going to change in Git 2.0. When no default push strategy is configured a warning will be shown when pushing.

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Cache Credentials in Git

Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 21:27

Tags: Git VCS

When you are working with Git you often have to provide you credentials when you want to push your changes to a remote repository. It is possible to cache these credentials for a certain amount of time.

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User Configuration in Git

Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 21:11

Tags: Git VCS

When changes are committed to a version control system it is always useful to be able to track who committed the changes. In Git you can configure your username and email address for this purpose. This information will be recorded in subsequent commits.

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Remove Git Configuration

Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 20:55

Tags: Git VCS

Removing a Git configuration can be done with the git config --unset command.

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Git Configuration

Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 20:54

Tags: Git VCS

In Git you can configure settings such as your username or email address on three different levels. In this post the the three levels of coniguration will be explained.

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Add Git to Development Environment

Monday, 27 January 2014, 22:57

Tags: Development Environment Setup Git VCS

Adding support for a version control system to the Development Environment is crucial. It is very important for project collaboration and it is also very convenient to have a full history of all the work you have been doing. In this post I will describe how I add Git to the development environment described in the development environment setup post.

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Git

Monday, 27 January 2014, 21:47

Tags: Git VCS

Git is a distributed version control system. Version control systems give you the ability to keep track of the entire history of all the files you place under version control. In distributed version control systems everyone who is working on the files under version control has a local copy of the history.

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