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Global gitignore File

When working with a version control system, you normally have files that are not ignored in some projects but you would like to ignore in globally in your workstation environment. The ways to do that are listed below. Option 1: The git/ignore file in the home directory The user’s ignore file is mentioned briefly in the Git documentation. You can add here your ignore rules the same way as you do it with your project .

July 1, 2022 Read
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Git Connection Errors During Cloning

I got these errors recently when I was trying to clone one of our repos. Unstable network connection or network infrastructure may have caused this so as a workaround, you can clone the repo “bit-by-bit”. $ git clone ssh://git@your.host.com/yourrepo.git Cloning into 'projectdir'... ... remote: Enumerating objects: 26639, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (269/269), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (152/152), done. client_loop: send disconnect: Connection reset by peer6 MiB/s fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output $ git clone ssh://git@your.

January 14, 2022 Read
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Changing Committer, Author, and Email in Git

I recently observed in my GitHub profile that most of my commits are not shown in my contribution activity. After doing a quick search, I found that the problem because my email in my commits do not match the email associated with my GitHub account. Changing Commits in the Remote Repository You need to use the filter-branch command to change the emails and names. git filter-branch -f --env-filter ' GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="yourname"; GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="youremaill@host.

August 10, 2021 Read