The first thing you should do when you install Git is, configure it to set your user name and email address. This is important because every Git commit uses this information to track who is the Author of this source code, what is his E-mail Id and date,time of when this code has been modified. … Read more
It often happens that while working on one project, you need to use another project from within it. Perhaps it’s a library that a third party developed or that you’re developing separately and using in multiple parent projects. A common issue arises in these scenarios: you want to be able to treat the two projects … Read more
Recently, I needed to clone the ndk while downloading andorid source, ndk size to clone was more than 4GB and my internet speed 512KB, which could take around 20 hours to clone. And, as you know if for any reason, Internet disconnects before git clone is 100%, the entire git needed to be clone from … Read more
Today I wanted to commit some message on development branch, and push it to development branch on the remote git repository, but mistakenly I did modified code on master branch, committed and also pushed it to remote master branch. But since, I didn’t wanted to touch the master branch and do all work on development … Read more
Are you looking for some Free, Cool tools for managing your source code, want to hosting your website or have some documentation / write-ups to note ? You have reached a right post 🙂 check below some one the cool online tools, Source Code Management Github – github allows you to create as many source repositories … Read more
Recently we wanted to create a yocto cgit repository mirror onto our github which should track our changes as well as yocto git, follow below steps to create a mirror on github, This assumes, we are cloning into poky-mirror directory on our local machine ~/Desktop/devlab/yocto and we have create a new repository named “poky” into our … Read more
This post list the details of some of the important gerrit commands which we have tried, (This post will be updated as and when we use the commands) Note: The gerrit commands are executed on Ubuntu gerrit review server https://review.opendev.org/ . You may need to register to execute same commands on this server. Check gerrit … Read more
Sometimes, you commit some changes in git, as well as push those to remote server and later realises that you need to change those messages for some reason. [ Note: Git only allows to change the last commit message, so if you want to change commit message after adding few more commits, then you are … Read more
When you need to work with git on windows, the very first thing you need to do is install git on Windows. This post describes the same, Visit git website https://git-scm.com/downloads and then click on “Windows” or you can alternatively visit website https://git-scm.com/download/win which downloads Git exe “Git-2.26.0-64-bit.exe” . You may see different version as … Read more
Gitiles is a simple repository browser for Git repositories, built on JGit. Its guiding principle is simplicity: it has no formal access controls, no write access, no fancy Javascript, etc. Gitiles automatically renders *.md Markdown files into HTML for simplified documentation. Gitiles requires Bazel to build. You need to use Java for building Gitiles. Below steps installs Bazel and … Read more
