Move a subdirectory into a new git repository

Context In the real world, we may probably have a large Git repository where you want to move out some sub-directories into single Git repositories. Regarding the Git repository, we…

Undo the last commit

As a software engineer or developer, I am pretty sure we often use git in our work on a daily basis. Many commits are committed to your local or remote…

Create or update a commit by a specified author

You may have a situation where a repository is mirrored to multiple remote URLs. One of the URLs is on Bitbucket and the other one is based on GitLab for…

Create an empty commit

When updating a submission, a new revision will be created to capture the updates and a commit will also be created. However, some updates don’t change the files coming alongside the submission but edited some metadata on that submission/dataset. In this case, an empty commit is created to match the newly created version.

Add git branch name to bash prompt

By default, git won’t display branch name to terminal prompt. To know which branch you are in, just run git branch command. However, if you want to customise how to…