Archive: git

Magento version two is coming. For those of us who are eagerly awaiting the next major version of the most popular and powerful open source e-commerce platform, you can now see, track and download the code on GitHub. Not had chance to have an in depth look as yet but we expect great things! https://github.com/magento/magento2 [...]

If you need to track down exactly how and when a particular change happened and you are not even sure exactly where it is (perhaps because its no longer present but you are not totally sure where it was supposed to be) then this little trick can be a life saver. You can search git [...]

I needed to quickly generate a deploy folder that included all changes in the last two weeks. Using git and a little bit of bash magic I was able to put together a one liner to do this. This works we use a public folder within our git structure which makes filtering the files easy, [...]

If you use Git a lot, you probably want to run the latest version. Scroll down for some reasons why. The standard repository version for Ubuntu is 1.7.1, the current latest is 1.7.5 and there are some significant differences. How to Upgrade Git To get 1.7.5 on Ubuntu without too much messing about you can [...]

Bash provides many powerful functions but how can you use these easily? If you spend any time using the command line, either to manage a server or on the desktop, you have to quickly become proficient with bash. You will also find the you carry out many of the same tasks time after time. This [...]

To install Git on a Centos server you need to install something called EPEL first. This is an extra repository of apps which you need to have accessible in order to install Git. I tried other tutorials on the net that were quite extensive but didn't work. In the end its just two commands: 1. [...]

If you use Git for version control and you would like to also keep a track of your database schema (and possibly content though I'm not doing that due to potential file sizes / speed issues) then all you need to do is this simple step: 1. Go to your project folder and into the [...]

My favourite PHP framework of the moment, Symfony, is now moving to my favourite version control system - Git. read more about it Symfony 2 Migration to Git Its only for the version 2 release, but its a nice step forwards. Github is a really nice system. The blog post also mentions this great online [...]

Using Git for version control is great, but if like my you work on a lot of different projects then everything you can do to save time setting Git up is well worth it. One of the features of Git is the ability to only track certain files and ignore other files. For me that [...]