As the name indicates, the.gitignore file, which is a text file, can be used to let Git know which files and directories to exclude/ignore from our git repositories. In other words, it indicates, which files are not necessary to be tracked (to be committed and pushed). Usually, in every codebase…

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Below I will be listing git commands that might be useful for everyday programming workflow. Show helpful guides that come with Git git help -g Search change by content git log -S'<a term in the source>' Show changes over time for specific file git log -p <file_name> Remove sensitive data from history, after a push git filter-branch --force --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch <path-to-your-file>' --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all && git push origin --force --all

No matter how small your codebase is, you’ll often need to find where a function is called or defined, or display the history of a method, especially when codebase grows. Git provides a couple of useful tools for looking through the code and commits stored in its database quickly and…

There are not very many commands in Git that access the network, nearly all of the commands operate on the local database. When you are ready to share your work or pull changes from elsewhere, there are a handful of commands that deal with remote repositories. List all current configured…

Basic Everyday use [BASH] — Being a Software Engineer involves familiarizing oneself not only with programming languages, frameworks and libraries, but with many other developing tools as such management tools, git, etc. Depending on our working methodologies and practices, we all end up using different tools to achieve our goals. …

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Git merge and git rebase, both are used to commit changes from one branch into another. The distinction is that both commands are accomplishing this service differently. “Rebasing re-writes the project history by creating brand new commits for each commit in the original branch.” …

In this article I will talk about how to handle local changes and version control your project with Git. After initializing project in Git, our files in working directory can be either in tracked or untacked state. As you might guess, tracked files are the ones git knows about, therefore…