Git

If you’re interested in getting some basic information about Git, surely you already know about the Git Community Book – it’s undoubtedly a source of great knowledge. However, if you prefer the visual presentation and want to listen about the Git, I will highly recommend Scott Chacon’s “Introduction to Git”. It is great, compact and fast-paced talk about the basics of Git. So, either you know nothing about Git or you already know something and just want to summarize your knowledge – I would highly recommend you to spend this 1,5 h on watching this video....

I’m currently under the process of moving all my workplace repositories from SVN to Git (configured to work with Gerrit). As a side not, I already found it to be a great tool for code review, line-precise commenting of the artifacts and for reviewing new employees code before pushing the changes to the repository. But, back to my point. Recently I’ve stumbled upon a problem with committing an empty directory in Git....

If you’ve cloned a GitHub repository from the original one and not from your forked version and you would like to change it, you can just edit the .git/config file in your project and change the URL of the origin remote: [remote "origin"] fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* url = VALUE_WHICH_SHOULD_BE_ADJUSTED Simple, easy, and most importantly – it works.